Boy, 14, Awarded $65 Million After Mom Dies in Crash While Driving Them Home from Water Park

The Aug. 8, 2022, incident left the now 14-year-old son of Megan Arneson orphaned

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  • A boy’s mother died in a 2022 crash caused by an improperly loaded excavator striking a bridge
  • The driver responsible pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and was sentenced to community corrections and service
  • The boy, now raised by his grandparents, was awarded $65 million in a wrongful death jury verdict

Three years after a teen boy and his mom were in a crash that killed her, the now 14-year-old has been awarded $65 million.

Megan Arneson’s son was awarded the wrongful death jury verdict after she was killed in a crash on Aug. 8, 2022, a press release from Dulin McQuinn Young, LLP explains.

That day, Arneson and her then 10-year-old son were traveling northbound on I-25 near Mead, Colo., as they made their way home from Water World…

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