A Marine Corps family whose 8-year-old son died last year after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle on Camp Pendleton has sued the companies that provide housing on base to military families, alleging in the lawsuit that overgrown hedges at a residential intersection were a “substantial factor” in the crash.

Lucas Antczak was fatally injured on Oct. 26 when he was struck in a neighborhood off Vandegrift Boulevard near the San Luis Rey Gate. He died a week later, on Nov. 1, at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.

William and Brooke Antczak alleged in their lawsuit filed Friday in San Diego federal court that Liberty Military Housing, a company that provides housing to military families on or near bases around the country, and two related companies “negligently designed,

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