PORT ANGELES — The mother of a 25-year-old man killed in a vehicle collision in 2008 has filed a lawsuit against the woman convicted of his death.
Mitzi Sanders filed the case, seeking compensation for hospital and burial expenses, in Clallam County Superior Court against Engre Brown on Thursday — a day shy of the third anniversary of her son’s death.
Brown, 30, collided with Benjamin M. Merscher’s vehicle head-on Oct. 7, 2008, on U.S. Highway 101 west of Kitchen-Dick Road between Sequim and Port Angeles.
Brown had a blood-alcohol level of 0.18 percent and was sentenced to 12 years in prison in May 2009 after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide.
Sanders, a Sequim resident, is representing herself and declined to comment.
Her son was also from Sequim.