A Georgia widow is suing a Ford dealership, an off-road modification shop, and several aftermarket equipment companies, alleging that a six-inch suspension lift on a Ford F-150 turned an otherwise survivable head-on collision into one that killed her husband.
Charles Holloway Jr., 63, died January 8, 2026, after a 2020 Ford F-150 crossed the centerline of Browns Bridge Road in Hall County, Georgia, and struck his 2018 Toyota Tundra. The Ford’s driver, Scott Douglas Kneiss, 61, was subsequently charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, but the wrongful-death lawsuit seeks to establish responsibility beyond the person behind the wheel.
Holloway’s widow alleges that the aftermarket lift raised the Ford’s frame rails and other structural components high enough to bypass the Toyota’s engineered crash protections, allowing the F-150 to penetrate the driver’s compartment rather than engage the structures designed to absorb collision forces. She also contends that the modification interfered with the Ford’s collision-avoidance systems…