The family of a Texas man who was killed in a car crash involving two reporters at The Weather Channel has sued the network for $125 million, arguing that the network's executives ignored the reporters' history of allegedly reckless driving that they say led to the accident.

Corbin Lee Jaeger, 25, died in March of 2017 near Spur, Texas, when a vehicle used by the channel's storm chaser unit reportedly ran a stop sign at 70 miles per hour, according to EverythingLubbock.com. His family reportedly filed suit Tuesday over the crash, which also killed two Weather Channel reporters, Kelley Williamson and Randall Yarnall.

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The Weather Channel did not immediately return a request from The Hill over the accusations in the lawsuit. Among the allegations include claims that The Weather Channel knew about Yarnall and Williamson's "habitual" reckless driving, but did nothing to reprimand them and even encouraged the behavior to build tension in news reports.

“The lawsuit also alleges that TWC was aware of their dangerous, reckless driving habits,” the Jaeger family's attorneys told EverythingLubbock.com.

“TWC’s on air personalities Kelley Williamson and Randall Yarnall habitually ran stop signs, traffic lights and violated other basic traffic safety laws, in attempts to obtain video footage for their show,” the attorneys continued. “Yarnall and Williamson had a history of reckless driving when storm chasing," which they say the network encouraged in order to “increase the sense of danger."

Other storm chasers, the lawsuit states, repeatedly warned the network about the pair's allegedly reckless driving but were ignored.

The Weather Channel is owned by NBC Universal, which is also named in the lawsuit.