The Georgia Department of Transportation has settled a wrongful death case with the family of a woman who was killed after a taxi cab drove off the side of the road and struck a tree.

The Georgia DOT will pay $600,000 to the family of the woman and also expressed their apologies to the children and husband of the woman. The accident occurred in 2003 as the woman was picked up by a cab at the airport and was on her way to a business trip when the cab driver lost control on the slick roadway. The woman was killed instantly.

The lawsuit claimed that the tree that the cab struck was put to close to the roadway and that the Georgia DOT was negligent when designing that area of the highway. The suit was put off for many years and finally went to trial when the lawsuit added that the section of the intersection was too steep and had a bad drainage system. DOT is planning to cut down more trees by the interstate as well.