Lawsuit: Family blames dealership, salesman, and driver for mother's death in June crash

Editor's Note: The video above first aired on June 12 after Meece was arrested and charged in connection with this deadly crash.

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- "This lawsuit is necessary because of a muscle car test drive that went horribly wrong and took an innocent mother from her children. Speed may sell, but here, it killed."

That was the argument made by attorneys with Zehl & Associates in a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in connection with the death of 47-year-old Quma Carrillo. Carrillo died on June 7 after a collision on E University Boulevard.

According to an Odessa Police Department report, around 9:35 a.m. on June 7, officers were called to the area of E University Boulevard and Oakwood Drive to investigate a crash. At the scene, officers learned that a blue Dodge Challenger bearing dealer tags was heading eastbound on E University when it collided with a red Honda Accord that was traveling westbound on E University, attempting to turn south onto Oakwood Drive. 

Investigators said that 37-year-old Benjamin Meece was test driving the Dodge and a car salesman was riding as a passenger when the crash occurred. Following the crash, officers said Meece ran from the scene and was found trying hide under a sheet of plywood in the backyard of a home on Laguna ...