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[...] Kelley Gene Williamson and Randall Yarnall were heading north, directly towards the storm. At the time, on 28 March 2017, they were covering the event for the Weather Channel programme Storm Wranglers. [...] Yarnall was driving his Chevrolet truck at about 70mph (113km/h) at the time, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. A video the friends were live-streaming for the Weather Channel's Facebook page showed they made no attempt to stop at the junction.
The footage cut out a split second before a Jeep driven by Corbin Jaeger drove westbound into the junction. Jaeger, who had the right of way, was driving away from the storm.
Williamson, Yarnall and Jaeger - a respected storm chaser working for the National Weather Service - were all killed on the spot.
The lawsuit, filed by Jaeger's mother, seeks up to $125m (£95m) in damages. It puts the blame firmly at the door of Williamson and Yarnall, whom it calls "habitually reckless and dangerous", as well as the Weather Channel.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47720417
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @12:04PM
And thanks to the cowboys livestreaming themselves for the creation of a sensational TV series that's sure to make a few elites at the top even more moola while doing approximately jack shit for science, we know that the two cowboys ran a red light, killed themselves, and killed a professional working in the interests of the public and of science.
Seems to me we can cancel the storm chaser thing out of both sides of the equation, and so we're left with a couple cowboys who were not paying attention to the road, ran a red light, and committed vehicular homicide. Throw the book at both their estates and their employer, since they were on the clock.