Kathryn Harnecker lives in the Everett neighborhood closest to an unusual stretch of Broadway.
"I haven't seen it (fatal accidents) but I walk in the cemetery and a young man had just got killed there," said Harnecker.
After living there for 25 years, she says she is familiar with the sharp turn onto Broadway.
"But I can see how another person from out of the city could have confusion with it," she added.
Sheena Blair and Martin Ramirez were killed, two others badly hurt, when a drunk driver who didn't turn, kept going and plowed into them head on.
Camille Spink's blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit that February night in 2010. Nearly a year later, she pleaded guilty.
"Just because she accepted her share of the responsibility," said Seattle lawyer Randy Gordon, "doesn't mean that's the only thing that caused the collision."
Indeed Gordon, the lawyer for Sheena Blair's family, contends the road is so poorly designed that the city is to blame, too.
"There've been 20 other injuries at this site including a fatality since this event," he said.
"Not one driver except a man who was suffering from a diabetic emergency ever went the wrong way on this road," shot back Andy Cooley, who is representing Everett.
And, he counters, only the drunk driver in the fatal accident is at fault.
"This is a referendum about how we treat drunk driving," insisted Cooley. "Are we going to hold drunk drivers accountable? Or are we going to say that she somehow gets off the hook because there was a missing sign or stripe that her paid experts think should have been there?"
Several drivers echoed his view, saying the city has done its part by putting up signs and lights.
A Snohomish County Superior Court jury will decide who is right.
The trial begins June 22.
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