Jan 4, 2009 12:34 pm US/Pacific
Family Sues City, County For L.A. Freeway Death
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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The family Ernesto Beltran is suing the city and county for not building a barrier along the freeway he was driving on. (File Photo)
CBS
The family of a man who died after losing control of his car and plummeting into a Los Angeles flood-control ditch is suing the city and county for not building a barrier along the freeway he was driving on.
Ernesto Beltran's family members said in their wrongful death suit that the city and county acted negligently when they failed to install the barrier along the stretch of the 110 Freeway where he slid into the Arroyo Seco Channel.
An attorney for Beltran's widow said state transit officials recommended that a safety barrier be constructed more than a year before the 46-year-old's death in February 2007.
California Department of Transportation spokeswoman Maria Raptis said a $21-million plan to build a barrier is in the works and that construction should begin in the spring.
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