Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins estate settles with truck driver and owner more than a year after NFL star was fatally hit on a Florida highway
- Haskins was fatally hit by a dump truck along a Florida highway in April 2022
- In March of this year, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of his widow, Kalabrya Haskins
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The estate of the late quarterback Dwayne Haskins has settled with the driver, owner and broker of the dump truck that hit and killed the former NFL star, according to a lawyer representing Haskins’ widow.
Details of the settlement have not been disclosed, according to ESPN.
Haskins was fatally hit by a dump truck along a Florida highway in April 2022. In March of this year, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Haskins’ relatives.
The lawsuit alleged that the driver of the dump truck was speeding, driving carelessly and carrying a load that exceeded the legal weight limit. It also named the individual owner of the 1994 Kenworth truck and the driver’s transportation company.
Rick Ellsley, the attorney for Haskins’ widow, Kalabrya Haskins, said via ESPN that other settlements had already been reached with “several other parties.” However, he added that “the case continues in Broward County Circuit Court against multiple other defendants.”
Kalabrya Haskins and Dwayne Haskins, who died in a car accident on April 9, 2022
According to investigators, the dump truck hit Haskins in the middle lane of the highway
The lawsuit also charged two people – Joey Smith and Meriem Yassine – with drugging Haskins “to blackmail and rob him causing him to be seriously injured and die.” Smith and Haskins knew each other before his death, but Yassine had no existing relationship with the quarterback, Ellsley told DailyMail.com.
Haskins, 24, was hit by at least two vehicles on April 9, 2022, along a Florida highway. It was previously reported that a single dump truck hit the quarterback on the highway, but it was also “partially” hit by another vehicle, according to the Florida Highway Patrol crash report provided to DailyMail.com at the time.
It remains unclear what Haskins was doing as he walked along a highway near the Fort Lauderdale airport.
One possible clue comes from a 911 call from Kalabrya, who told the operator that her husband’s car was stranded and he was going on foot to look for a gas station.
In a frantic 911 call to DailyMail.com, Kalabrya explained that she called from Pittsburgh about 10 minutes after speaking to her husband on April 9, 2022.
Haskins attempted to cross Interstate 595 in Fort Lauderdale around 6:30 a.m., according to police
She explained that Haskins told her he was stranded on a highway in Broward County, Florida and was walking to find gas. He allegedly told Kalabrya he would call her when he was done, but she never received a call.
A separate 911 call includes a witness who said she saw a man hit by a dump truck.
A former Washington first round pick, Haskins struggled during his first two years in the league and was suspended in 2021 before signing a one-year, $850,000 deal as a backup at Pittsburgh.
Haskins earned over $14 million in the NFL after a distinguished career at Ohio State.