Kelley Williamson and Randy Yarnall, storm chasers for the Weather Channel, smashed into storm spotter Corbin Lee Jaeger after police said they blew a stop sign at a remote Texas intersection. Now Jaeger's mother is suing.
By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow March 27 at 6:45 AM The wall of charcoal gray clouds drifted across the sky, the rain picked up and the storm chasers gunned it.
Corbin Lee Jaeger, miles away, must have been seeing the same dark skies. Like Williamson and Yarnall, storms magnetized Jaeger, a 25-year-old certified storm spotter.The live stream ended right when it happened — when Williamson, 57, and Yarnall, 55, blew through a stop sign, police said, and smashed into Jaeger as he attempted to cross a remote Texas intersection.Now, Jaeger’s mother, Karen Di Piazza, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Weather Channel over her son’s death, seeking $1.
The fatal collision raised concerns over the dangers of storm chasing while devastating the storm-chaser community, as all three men were remembered for their unrivaled passion for treacherous weather. “I’m not sure if you happened to catch any of Kelley’s movement, but he put himself in a VERY bad spot, live on air, so god forbid if anything happened we would have to see it live on air,” the lawsuit claims the producer wrote, adding, “NOT GOOD."
He said he could not stop thinking about “everything I told him about driving safe and not being so distracted . . . and then telling you that I was worried that he was gonna kill someone or himself . . . And then it happens. So I am obviously in a way dark place right now. I know many of us are. I guess that’s [what’s] killin me. I tried to tell him over and over.”
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