A ticking time bomb: family of crash victim suing state DOT over dangerous SR 509 intersection [Video]

The state could be on the hook for a fatal accident that claimed six lives at a notorious South Sound intersection.

Now a Tacoma law firm has filed the first lawsuit in that deadly crash.

South Sound drivers are almost certainly familiar with State Route 509 where it intersects with Alexander Avenue East in the so-called Tacoma Tide flats.

Last July, six people were killed when two vehicles collided.

A fix is coming as the state’s project to extend State Route 167 has finally begun, after years of delay.

But it comes too late for the six young people who died here in that horrific accident last July.

It may be one of the most heavily used and least loved intersections in the South Sound.

“I come through here all the time, it is so dangerous,” said Vicki Fritsch. “It really is.”

State Route 509 and Alexander Avenue East is …