Letter: An astounding claim

EDITOR,
I just finished your article, “Accident victim files $72M claim against Scotts Valley” (Page 7, June 4). After reading it, I was astounded that an attorney could actually think the city of Scotts Valley could somehow be responsible for this accident.
As a professional, the attorney should know that the city of Scotts Valley is not responsible for maintenance in the state right-of-way. Further, if the claimant was driving at an unsafe speed, the speed limit is immaterial. Given there was a large, unrestrained dog in a speeding car makes one think that might have been the more likely cause of the accident. If one of my children had been hurt in this accident, I would have sued the driver of the car, not the state of California.
The city of Scotts Valley should charge this attorney for its time investigating and responding to this claim. That might help to end such nonsense.
Michael Duffy, Scotts Valley