SpaceX Beats $20 Million Wrongful Death Claim in Texas Crash
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. wasn’t responsible for a fatal crash involving an 18-wheeler delivering supplies to a south Texas rocket facility, a federal judge determined.
The family of Carlos Venegas sued SpaceX for $20 million after the 35-year-old man was killed while driving his family home from a beach camping trip at 4 a.m. in July 2020. Venegas’s wife and three children were also injured when the family’s car slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer attempting to negotiate a tight turn onto SpaceX’s one-lane access road from an unlighted public highway.