Venus Williams is another famous figure who avoided charges related to a fatal car accident. The professional tennis player also reached a settlement in a wrongful death suit that was brought forth after a June 2017 crash, according to CNN. A passenger in the other car named Jerome Barson died two weeks after the accident.
In the wrongful death lawsuit, Barson's family stated that his injuries were extensive, including "severed main arteries, massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine, and massive internal organ damage," which led to his death, per CNN. In 2018, NBC News reported that documents at a Palm Beach County court "show[ed] that the case was closed," but the "terms of the agreement between Williams and the estate of Jerome Barson, 78, weren't included in the documents."
Williams, who was uninjured in the crash, was obviously distraught over the accident and was "visibly shaken" and "began to cry" when asked by reporters about the incident at Wimbledon in 2017, CNN noted. She told reporters, "There are really no words to describe, like, how devastating and — yeah. I'm completely speechless. It's just ..." Really, sometimes there are no words to describe how one feels about such a tragic event.
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