‘Avenue Outlaws’ Star Ryan Fellows’ Household Sues Discovery Over Deadly Crash

The household of the late “Avenue Outlaws: Quickest in America” star Ryan Fellows claims each TV networks and studios put his life in danger for monetary acquire by having him race on an unsafe stretch of highway … and now they’re suing over his deadly crash.

In line with new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, the Fellows household goes after Warner Bros. Discovery and Lions Gate Leisure … accusing the media firms of negligence they insist led to Ryan’s demise.

Within the docs, the household says the realm the place ‘Avenue Outlaws’ filmed drag racing scenes was a dusty, weather-beaten, tough asphalt 55-mile per hour roadway within the Las Vegas desert, which did not meet any of the trade security requirements for drag racing.

TMZ broke the story … Ryan died again in August in a fiery crash throughout filming for his widespread Discovery present. We had been advised Ryan was racing one other driver when he misplaced management of his automobile close to the end line, with the automobile rolling earlier than catching fireplace.

Within the docs, Ryan’s household says the roadway the place he crashed was solely 12 ft large as an alternative of the trade normal of 30 ft. Additionally they say the perimeters of the highway featured damaged asphalt and gravel shoulders with sheer drop-offs, as an alternative of the trade normal concrete boundaries.

Ryan’s household claims there have been quite a few crashes throughout filming, together with automobiles flipping, rolling and catching fireplace … and so they rip the media giants for filming life-threatening collisions and airing them on TV for revenue.

The household claims the tough asphalt precipitated racecars to lose traction, the slim lanes left drivers no room for corrections and the gravel shoulders and drop-offs despatched racecars into out-of-control slides that solely ended when the automobiles dug into the sand, flipped and rolled.

The Fellows say Warner Bros. Discovery knew it was extraordinarily harmful to carry races on the roadway … and so they declare it was an “excessive departure from what an affordable cautious individual would do in the identical scenario to forestall hurt to others.”

It will get worse … Ryan’s household says Warner Bros. Discovery had a number of alternatives to maneuver filming to a safer location after “quite a few horrific crashes,” however they are saying the community as an alternative “sat again, flipped on the lights and cameras, and waited for the subsequent inevitable crash.”

That crash occurred August 7, when Ryan’s household claims his racecar misplaced traction on the roadway, slid off the highway and flipped right into a roll. The Fellows say Ryan’s automobile rolled a number of occasions earlier than coming to a relaxation the wrong way up and catching fireplace, and so they declare he hung the wrong way up within the driver’s seat on fireplace for greater than half-hour earlier than fireplace crews eliminated him from the automobile. By that point, the household says Ryan was horribly burned and useless.

The Fellows say after Ryan’s demise Warner Bros. Discovery moved the present to a devoted 75-foot-wide drag strip at an expert California raceway … and the household says the change “proves the provision and feasibility of a safer different to the unsafe desert roadway.”

Ryan’s household is now suing the media corporations and so they need punitive and compensatory damages as a result of they are saying his demise is inflicting struggling and lack of love and companionship.