- Police found that nobody was to blame for the crash which killed three
Jamie Lynn Spears’ husband was accused of causing a fatal crash that claimed the lives of three people when his truck blocked a major motorway just two years after the couple married.
Police found nobody was to blame for the crash that followed Jamie Watson getting his uninsured trailer truck stuck as he turned into a private driveway and obstructed the US-51 in Louisiana.
The details of the case have surfaced as Spears appears on the new series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
One oncoming vehicle – an 18-wheeler driven by a man called Corey David – was able to stop in time but a Chevrolet Silverado pickup driven by Kaleb Collette was allegedly speeding and went into the back of David.
Collette, 28, died as a result along with his passengers Lee Ross, 27, and Kenneth Parnell, 27.
Jamie Lynn Spears’ husband Jamie Watson (pictured with Spears) was accused of causing a fatal crash that claimed the lives of three people when his truck blocked a major motorway just two years after the couple married in 2014
The details of the 2016 case have surfaced as Spears appears on the new series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! A police report found that nobody was to blame for the crash
Another two years after the crash the couple (pictured) had a daughter together – Ivey Joan – who is now five
Brittney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn married Watson in 2014, four years after they got together, with the tragic crash taking place on July 11, 2016.
Another couple of years later the couple had a daughter together – Ivey Joan – who is now five.
Another year later, the surviving driver of the 18-wheeler who suffered physical and mental injuries, filed a lawsuit against Watson and his company Fluker Transportation LLC – the drive of which Watson had been trying to go down.
He also filed lawsuits against Kaleb’s mother Melinda Collette and the insurance companies of all involved, including the insurer of his own rental truck.
David’s petition laid blame at both Collette and Watson, with the latter accused of ‘gross and flagrant recklessness, carelessness, negligence and fault’.
He also referenced to Fluker Transportation’s policy with its insurers, which according to court reports included an exclusion form signed by Watson, stating that ‘none of the insurance coverages afforded by this policy’ shall apply to him.
The lawsuit was eventually settled by David’s insurance though, despite their efforts to pin the incident on Watson, and a police report reinforced the conclusion that nobody was to blame.
The victim’s lawyers then went on to say that Collette’s Chevrolet was ‘100 per cent at fault and completely uninsured’ in a court document.
However, David’s insurers – Nationwide – attempted to continue with their action against Watson, eventually settling in 2021.
Fluker Transportation also got sued for damages by the father of one of the crash victims, who blamed both Watson and David for the accident, but that case was also settled.
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