The father of a 17-year-old driver who tried to navigate a slight curve on a rural Beaverton road and ended up crashing and dying has filed a $39 million lawsuit against the city, Washington County and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
David Tankersley’s lawsuit contends that Southwest Tile Flat Road’s narrow lanes might have been as much as 3 feet narrower than state standards.
Mai Grace Tankersley, a Beaverton resident, was driving home after only her second day of training for her new Dutch Bros coffee job when the passenger-side wheels of the Jeep Wrangler she was driving ran onto the gravel shoulder, according to the lawsuit and an attorney representing Tankersley’s estate. The Jeep then careened back onto the road and crashed into a large tree, rolling over, the suit says…