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Bay Area Jury Awards $33M to Twin Girls After Parents Killed in Street Racing Crash
Jurors found Cesar Morales, Kyle Harrison and Morales’ parents liable after evidence showed the car was racing at more than 100 mph.
- On Tuesday, a San Mateo County jury awarded $33 million to twin girls whose parents were killed in a 2022 street racing crash in Redwood City. The verdict holds driver Cesar Morales and his parents liable for the tragedy.
- The November 4, 2022, collision occurred when Morales, then 17, engaged in a high-speed race with Kyle Harrison. The crash killed Gregory Ammen, 44, and Grace Spiridon, 42, while their then-7-year-old daughters survived in their Chevrolet Bolt.
- Jurors found Morales' parents, Arnold Morales and Susana Salto Alvarez, liable for negligent supervision after evidence showed they ignored "repeated warning signs about problematic driving behavior." The jury assigned 20% of the fault to Arnold Morales and 5% to Alvarez.
- Attorney Niall McCarthy called the verdict a "wake-up call to Bay Area parents," emphasizing that ignoring warning signs regarding teenage drivers creates "an unreasonable risk of harm to other persons." The family views the decision as providing clarity for the orphaned children.
- Previously, Morales served 90 days of electronic home monitoring in juvenile court, while Harrison, who pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter, died in jail last March. The civil judgment addresses accountability for the surviving twins now raised by relatives.
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East Bay TimesTwins who lost parents in Peninsula street racing crash awarded $33 million
A San Mateo County jury has awarded $33 million to twin girls who lost their parents in a violent street racing crash nearly four years ago in Redwood City.
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Jury awards $33 million to twin girls who lost parents in Redwood City crash
A San Mateo County jury found Cesar Morales, Kyle Harrison and Morales’ parents liable in the wrongful death case stemming from the November 2022 crash that killed Greg Ammen and Grace Spiridon. The jury awarded $33 million in economic and non-economic damages on Tuesday to the twin girls whose parents were killed in a high-speed crash on El Camino Real in Redwood City nearly four years ago. The verdict came after a roughly three-week trial stem…
·San Jose, United States
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