SpaceX Drive for Profit Led to Road Crash Death, Family Says
The SpaceX South Texas launch site in Boca Chica Village in Brownsville, Texas.
Photographer: Veronica G. Cardenas/BloombergThis article is for subscribers only.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s company that’s preparing to land people on the moon was too cheap to make a Texas roadway safe, leading to a traffic accident that killed a local man, the victim’s attorney claims in a lawsuit.
Carlos Venegas, 35, was driving his family home from a beach camping trip around 4 a.m. on July 7, 2020, when he slammed into the back of an idling eighteen-wheeler trying to enter a one-lane, unlit access road to Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s rocket launch facility at Boca Chica, Texas, according to the complaint.