A vehicle crash last year in North Myrtle Beach was planned in an effort to defraud U-Haul’s insurance carrier, the moving company asserted in a recent lawsuit filing.
Tiesheam Johnson, of Whiteville, North Carolina, leased a U-Haul rental truck on June 4, 2024 and drove it into the back of a Hyundai a few hours later on Circle Bay Drive, the complaint states. Johnson had attempted to add $1 million supplemental liability insurance coverage shortly after executing the rental agreement, but was unsuccessful, the complaint adds.
Other defendants named in the suit are Byron Butler, of Tabor City, North Carolina, who was a passenger in the U-Haul at the time of the crash; Latisha Colebrooke, of Longs, the driver of the Hyundai; Tanisha Lawrence, of Conway, a passenger in the Hyundai; and Anngulletta Thurmond, of Longs, another passenger in the Hyundai…