Wrongful Death Suit Filed After Boy Dies in Go-Kart Accident

Claiming the Horn Rapids Kart Track was negligently designed, maintained and operated, the parents of a 12-year-old boy killed in a go-kart accident there in 2008 have filed a wrongful death suit against the city of Richland, Washington and Tri-City Kart Club which leases the kart track from the city.

The young boy’s kart slid off the track during a hairpin turn, crossed a grassy slope and crashed through a wire cable fence at a high rate of speed.  He died of injuries to his neck vertebrae and jugular vein.  The boy was an experienced go-kart driver who had won events in his class just weeks before the accident.

Also named in the lawsuit are the mechanics who worked on the go-kart’s brakes immediately before the race, race organizers and the International Kart Federation.

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