Super Duty rolled, collapsed, and killed the driver so his wife and daughter climbed from the wreckage and sued Ford
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The Horn family suffered a nearly unspeakable tragedy last March. The aftermath put the Horns on a collision course with one of the most powerful families in America: the Fords. Who will win is anyone’s guess.
On March 4, Steven Horn hooked his trailer up to his 2012 Ford F-350 Super Duty. He loaded up his wife, Jamie, and their daughter. Then the three left Pueblo, Colorado, to drive to Seminole, Oklahoma. But they would never arrive.
En route, a gust of wind shook the truck and trailer. Steven reportedly slowed down, but that wasn’t enough. The wind caught the trailer and flipped both trailer and truck. The F-350 rolled several times before landing on its roof. The roof collapsed, and the impact killed Steven.
Miraculously, the rollover spared Jamie and her daughter. Both were able to climb from the wreckage under their own power. It seems Steven might have survived too. But his section of the heavy truck’s roof collapsed, and he was killed instantly. Jamie thought the roof should have been designed and built to hold—and many would argue she’s right.
The Horn family sues Ford over the Super Duty crash death
Many owners and family members have sued Ford for collapsed roofs on 1999–2016 Super Duty pickup trucks. So Jamie Horn lawyered up and sued Ford too.
The Horn lawsuit argues that Ford Super Duty trucks were not properly designed. But just as importantly, it argues that Ford knew and decided not to recall them or warn customers in any way. They filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in June 2025. But there’s no telling how the case will go. That’s because the legal precedent is murky, to say the least.
Customers have been suing Ford for similar tragedies since 2014. In a high-profile 2022 case, a court ordered Ford to pay $1.7 billion to the children of the Hill family, whose parents were crushed by a 2002 F-250’s roof. Later, Herman and Debra Mills’ family sued Ford when their F-250’s roof collapsed and killed the couple. A jury awarded the family $2.5 billion, the largest settlement in Georgia history. But later, a Ford spokesperson said, “The verdict is impermissibly extreme and not supported by the evidence,” and a court struck the decision from the record.
