The SC Department of Transportation says a University of South Carolina student hit by a car in Five Points was negligent and reckless while attempting to cross the street, in response to a lawsuit filed by the student over the design of a new crosswalk on Harden Street.
Maya Trowbridge was crossing Harden Street at a newly-installed mid-block crosswalk with a friend in October when she was struck by a car and “viciously flipped in the air,” causing fractures throughout her body, according to a lawsuit Trowbridge filed against SCDOT and the city of Columbia this April.
Trowbridge, in her lawsuit, has accused SCDOT and the city of being negligent in the design and testing of the new crosswalk…