The Tennessee Department of Transportation is under fire after billing a dead teenager $3,000 to replace a guardrail that killed her in a car crash.

Steven Eimers, of Loudon, Tenn., tells the Knoxville News Sentinel that he received the bill for his 17-year-old daughter, Hannah, four months after she died in a wreck. She was killed Nov. 1 when her car left I-75 near Niota and hit the end of the guardrail with the driver's door; the highway patrol said she died instantly when the rail impaled her in the head and chest.

The TDOT sent a bill, addressed to Hannah Eimers and dated Feb. 24, to seek reimbursement for the cost of labor and materials to reinstall 25 feet of guardrail where the crash occurred.

"It's obscene," Steven Eimers toldThe Washington Post. "They will kill you and then they will bill you. The bill was absolutely tasteless ... It's almost comical. It's like the most obscene comedy skit you can come up with."

According to the Post, Hannah was found at fault for the crash. She had been at a Halloween party the night before and stayed at a friend's house; the next morning, they were driving to school and slammed into the guardrail end terminal after Hannah tried to correct when the car went off the road, investigators said.

The other girl in the car suffered minor injuries.

Steven blames the "defective" and "dangerous" guardrail that had been removed from the TDOT's list of approved products a week earlier.

The Lindsay X-LITE was designed to crumple on high-speed impacts to