TACOMA, WA – Washington state has agreed to pay a $28 million settlement to woman who was left quadriplegic in wreck on Interstate 5 in DuPont.

20-year-old Skylar Seward filed a lawsuit against the state DOT after the car she was riding in crashed into an overpass pillar in October 2013.

The lawsuit claimed a guardrail or barrier should have been installed to stop a car from hitting the pillar, but instead there was an earthen berm.

Seward’s attorneys say the berms were proven ineffective, and the state Legislature in 2006 had funded a six-year plan to replace them. They claim the department failed to do so. The department says the 26 remaining earthen berms will be fixed between 2019 and 2021.

(The Associated Press contributed to this story)