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The families of the four Pepperdine students who tragically lost their lives on a dangerous stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu last year are suing the state and many entities within it.
When Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir, and Deslyn Williams were making their way to an event on the northbound shoulder of a part of the PCH called “Dead Man’s Curve” in October of last year, a vehicle got stuck and killed them. A driver traveling at high speed careened onto the shoulder, collided with three parked automobiles, and struck the women who were standing by the roadside.
There was one casualty and four deaths among the Alpha Phi sorority members. The driver, a 22-year-old guy, was taken into custody on charges of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
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Victims’ families, including those of five injured students and two sorority sisters, have sued California, Caltrans, the California Coastal Commission, Los Angeles County, and Malibu about a year after the accident, according to ABC 7. According to the cases submitted in Santa Monica Superior Court, each of the involved parties is jointly and severally liable for the allegedly hazardous road design on that stretch of PCH and the failure to execute life-saving safety measures.
In a joint statement, the plaintiffs’ attorneys lamented that Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu had a hazardous history and remains so to this day, both for automobiles and pedestrians. “As a result of the defendants’ complacency, far too many lives have been needlessly lost.”
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The joint plaintiffs’ counsel stated that the case seeks to compel the government organizations to “do what they should have done a long time ago so no more lives are needlessly taken,” referring to the goal of the complaint. There have been more automobile accidents on that section of PCH than any other segment of the whole 21-mile coastal road, according to the lawsuits, and pedestrians have been unprotected for decades despite the defendants’ knowledge of the risks.
From 2013 to 2023, 53 people died and 92 were seriously injured in the area, according to a sheriff’s captain. The lawsuits state that efforts to improve conditions through law enforcement have yielded modest or transitory effects.
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