Charles Holloway Jr., 63, of Cartersville, Georgia, was driving his Toyota Tundra west on Browns Bridge Road near Lake Lanier in Hall County at about 10 a.m. on Jan. 8 when an eastbound Ford F-150 crossed the centerline and hit him head-on, according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office account reported by Atlanta News First and The Daily Tribune News. He died at the scene.
His wife, Lolita Holloway, has now filed a wrongful-death suit in the State Court of Gwinnett County. It names the F-150’s driver, but it also reaches past him to the dealership that sold the truck, the shop that installed its suspension lift and the companies behind the lift kit. The suit’s theory is that the lift made the crash deadly: it alleges the raised F-150 rode over the Tundra’s front crash structure and into the cab instead of meeting it bumper to bumper…