Ex-SMU CB Teddy Knox, the opposite driver within the Rashee Rice crash, discovered liable in $2.9 million default judgement

[ad_1] The automobile crash involving Kansas Metropolis Chiefs vast receiver Rashee Rice has confirmed pricey for one different participant.

Former SMU cornerback Theodore Knox, the driving force of the Corvette that was racing Rice’s Lamborghini on a Dallas freeway earlier than their multi-car crash, was hit with a $2.88 million default judgement in a lawsuit from one of many crash victims, based on ESPN.

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Choose Kim Bailey Phipps reportedly dominated that Knox, who performed with Rice at SMU, was "grossly negligent." A default judgement signifies that Knox failed to answer the lawsuit from sufferer Kathryn Kuykendall or seem in courtroom. He was reportedly not current for the listening to and had no legal professional listed in courtroom data.

Per ESPN, the judgement was as an alternative made through written paperwork and already-filed proof, with the nine-figure sum overlaying punitive damages plus prices for medical bills, misplaced earnings and non-economic damages. Kuykendall’s legal professional did want Knox nicely, although:

"We have requested the courtroom to grant the default judgment as a result of we're ethically required to as a matter of diligence," Marc Lenahan, Kuykendall's legal professional, advised ESPN in an announcement when the movement was initially filed. "Personally, it pleases us that Teddy [Knox] hasn't made additional errors that we're conscious of. If a crew offers him an opportunity to show that he is strolling the suitable path now, we'll be rooting for him."

Per ESPN, that is truly the third default judgement rendered in opposition to Knox, who has additionally been ordered to pay $1.99 million to Irina Gromova and $1.63 million to Edvard Petrovskiy in mixed precise and punitive damages.

That provides as much as $6.5 million in instances misplaced by default.

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The crash in query occurred in April 2024, with Rice and Knox nonetheless coping with the repercussions.

Each gamers pleaded responsible to legal costs stemming from the crash, with Knox receiving 30 days in jail and 5 years of probation for costs of collision involving severe bodily damage and racing on a freeway inflicting bodily damage.

Knox was additionally suspended by SMU and hasn’t performed school soccer since. He's now not on the crew’s roster web page.

Per ESPN, Rice, who pleaded responsible to comparable costs and obtained the same penalty, nonetheless has two different civil instances pending in Dallas County, one for the crash and different over home violence allegations from an ex-girlfriend.