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Jury Awards $65M in Wrongful Death Verdict After Colorado Mother Killed in I-25 Crash
The verdict follows evidence that an improperly loaded excavator exceeded bridge clearance and struck Arneson’s car, killing the 32-year-old mother and preschool teacher.
- A Larimer County jury awarded $65 million to the family of Megan Arneson on Monday, September 21, 2026, concluding a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a 2022 fatal crash on I-25.
- On August 8, 2022, driver Darnell Yingling for Import Auto Inc. attempted to pass Arneson's car near Mead when his improperly loaded excavator struck a bridge overpass, sending concrete debris onto I-25.
- The lawsuit alleged Import Auto Inc. "failed to properly train Yingling and had failed to inspect the load prior to transport." Yingling had obtained his commercial license only four days before the crash.
- Yingling pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in 2023 and was sentenced in January 2024 to four years in community corrections, a sentencing alternative to prison in felony cases.
- Megan Arneson, a 32-year-old single mother and preschool teacher at Children's Workshop in Loveland, died at the scene, remembered for her "passion for teaching and caring for young children.
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