Venus Williams’ lawyer has obtained an emergency order in the wrongful death lawsuit against the tennis great over her June 9 crash in Palm Beach Gardens. 
 
 Circuit Judge Cymonie Rowe on Wednesday granted a request by Williams’ attorney to temporarily prevent a data download from the car occupied by victim Jerome Barson, 78. 
 
 The court has scheduled a hearing on the matter at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Palm Beach County Courthouse. 
 
 Barson died June 22 from traumatic injuries in the crash, including a broken spine and massive internal bleeding. 
 
 Williams is currently in London competing in the Wimbledon tennis championships and is not expected in court. She is scheduled to play a third-round match on Friday. 
 
 On Wednesday, Williams’ attorney asked the court to intervene and stop the Barson estate’s lawyers from inspecting and getting information from the 2016 Hyundai Accent. 
 
 The concern is that the planned download by Barson attorney Michael Steinger could fail and the data would be lost, argued attorney Kevin Yombor of Fort Lauderdale. He asked for the judge to approve a joint inspection carried out by experts for both sides. 
 
 Both the Accent and Williams’ 2010 Toyota Sequoia are being stored at a West Palm Beach tow yard, records show. 
 
 “The on-board data of both vehicles will be critical evidence,” Yombor wrote. “The actions taken by Plaintiff should not occur until … a procedure is in place to ensure that the data of each vehicle is properly collected.” 
 
 Palm Beach Gardens police say the crash remains under investigation. Williams has not been cited with any traffic violations. 
 
 Attorneys for the Barson estate could not be reached for comment Thursday despite attempts by email and phone. 
 
 The crash happened in the intersection of Northlake Boulevard and BallenIsles Drive. 
 
 Williams was driving north toward BallenIsles, where she lives, while the Barsons, who reside west of Palm Beach Gardens, were heading west on Northlake. Linda Barson, 68, was driving her husband of 33 years. 
 
 Williams’ SUV was hit on the right side by the Barsons’ Hyundai when the Toyota came through the intersection in front of the Barsons, police wrote in an initial report released last week. 
 
 “The driver of [the Toyota] is at fault for violating the right of way of [the Hyundai],” the police report stated, listing Williams speed as 5 mph and the Barsons’ speed as 25 mph. 
 
 But the cars’ “black boxes” could provide information about the speed at the time of impact. 
 
 Williams and Barson both said they had green lights. Williams told an officer she stopped “in the median break due to other traffic.” 
 
 The lawsuit blames Williams for “failing to yield the right of way, failing to stop at a red-light ... failing to stop for oncoming traffic, driving too fast for the conditions, driving carelessly and recklessly, and distracted driving.” 
 
 After her opening round victory at Wimbledon on Monday, Williams, 37, cried when speaking to reporters about the crash. 
 
 “There are no words to describe, like, how devastating and, yeah,” she said as her words trailed off. “Yeah, I am completely speechless.” 
 
 On Williams’ Facebook page, she posted a statement Friday after being sued: “I am devastated and heartbroken by this accident. My heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of Jerome Barson and I continue to keep them in my thoughts and prayers.” 
 
 mjfreeman@sun-sentinel.com, 561-243-6642 or Twitter @marcjfreeman ||||| As tennis star Venus Williams is on the court at Wimbledon Friday, her attorneys will be in court in West Palm Beach trying to stop the family of Jerome Barson from independently inspecting his car. 
 
 The 78-year-old Barson died from injuries incurred June 9 when a Hyundai Accent driven by his wife, Linda, crashed with a Toyota Sequoia driven by Williams in Palm Beach Gardens, and the Barson family has since filed a wrongful death suit against the Palm Beach Gardens-based athlete. 
 
 Attorneys for Barson’s family wanted to immediately download crash data from the Hyundai, but Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Cymonie Rowe on Wednesday granted an emergency motion by Williams’ attorneys to temporarily stop the Barson family’s attorneys. 
 
 In court records, Williams’ attorney, Kevin Yombor, said the family’s lawyers gave Williams less than 24 hours’ notice that they would be inspecting and downloading data from the car on Wednesday. 
 
 Yombor said “there was a concern regarding the loss or destruction of evidence should Plaintiff choose to proceed with the unilateral inspection and downloading the data of the Plaintiff’s vehicle.” 
 
 He wanted to them to wait for a judge to set guidelines for how attorneys could inspect both cars involved. 
 
 But the family attorneys, Yombor said, still wanted to move forward with the inspection. 
 
 The judge’s ruling, filed less than an hour after Williams’ emergency motion was made, granted a protective order that temporarily stopped the Barsons’ attorneys from conducting the inspection until the judge could consider the evidence at Friday’s hearing. 
 
 Palm Beach Gardens police say Williams, 37, was at fault in the June 9 crash that led to Barson’s death. Shortly after 1 p.m that day, the Barsons’ car collided with Williams’ SUV at Northlake Boulevard and BallenIsles Drive. Williams told police the light was green when she pulled her 2010 Toyota Sequoia out of the Steeplechase community and started crossing Northlake to go to BallenIsles, where she has a home. 
 
 Traffic had forced Williams to stop, blocking a lane, she told police. 
 
 Linda Barson, then 67, was driving west on Northlake Boulevard and told police she had a green light and drove through it when Williams cut in front of her in the intersection. 
 
 Jerome Barson suffered head injuries and was rushed to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he died on June 22, his wife’s birthday. 
 
 Williams, uninjured, was not ticketed or charged in the crash. She has advanced to the third round of the Wimbledon tournament in London and is scheduled to play Japan’s Naomi Osaka Friday morning. 
 
 Earlier this week, she broke down in tears when asked about the fatal crash. 
 
 “There really are no words to describe, like, how devastating…” Williams said, trailing off. “I’m completely speechless.” ||||| CLOSE Palm Beach Gardens police announced that Venus Williams was at fault in a fatal car accident. USA TODAY Sports 
 
 Venus Williams is being sued by the family of a man killed in a car crash with the tennis star. (Photo: Susan Mullane, USA TODAY Sports) 
 
 Venus Williams has obtained an emergency court order against the family of Jerome Barson, who died after injuries he suffered in an accident that involved Williams, according to multiple reports. 
 
 According to a report in the Daily Mail, Williams had requested that Barson's family stop its examination of the two cars involved in the fatal crash. Williams' lawyers argued the vehicles should not be examined for evidence and that no data should be taken from them. 
 
 The concern, according to a report in the Florida Sun-Sentinel, is that the planned download by Barson attorney Michael Steinger could fail and the data would be lost, argued attorney Kevin Yombor of Fort Lauderdale. He asked for the judge to approve a joint inspection carried out by experts for both sides. 
 
 The Sun-Sentinel said that both vehicles involved in the crash are being stored at a West Palm Beach tow yard. 
 
 "The on-board data of both vehicles will be critical evidence,” Yombor wrote. “The actions taken by Plaintiff should not occur until ... a procedure is in place to ensure that the data of each vehicle is properly collected.” 
 
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 Barson's family filed a lawsuit against Williams a week ago in Palm Beach County. 
 
 "Venus Williams negligently operated or maintained her Toyota Sequoia so that she collided with a 2016 Hyundai Accent that was being operating by Linda Barson and occupied by her husband, Jerome Barson,” Steinger wrote in the lawsuit. 
 
 Investigators say witnesses and Linda Barson, who was driving, told them Williams' 2010 Toyota Sequoia SUV crossed in front of the Barsons' 2016 Hyundai Accent after the couple's light turned green. The Accent smashed into the side of the Sequoia. 
 
 Williams, who owns a home near the crash site, told investigators her light was green when she entered the six-lane intersection but she got stopped midpoint by traffic and didn't see the Barsons' car before she crossed their lane. 
 
 Jerome Barson suffered “severed main arteries, massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine and massive internal organ damage,” according to the lawsuit. He died June 22. 
 
 Linda Barson also required hospitalization after she suffered “a cracked sternum, shattered right arm, broken right wrist, hand and fingers,” the lawsuit states. 
 
 Just before leaving for Wimbledon, Williams wrote on her facebook page that she was "devatated" about the accident. 
 
 After winning her first match at Wimbledon, Williams broke down in tears when asked about the incident, saying “There are really no words to describe, like, how devastating and — yeah. I’m completely speechless. It’s just ..."
– Venus Williams is set to take on Japan's Naomi Osaka at Wimbledon Friday, but she's already scored a tiny win in a different kind of court. A Palm Beach County judge on Wednesday granted an emergency request by Williams' attorney to temporarily block an inspection of a car involved in a fatal car crash, for which Williams is being sued. Her attorney, Kevin Yombor, said lawyers for the family of Jerome Barson, who died two weeks after the June 9 crash in Florida, gave less than a day's notice that they would be inspecting the 2016 Hyundai Accent that carried Barson. Yombor argued experts from both sides should be present for the inspection given concerns that data downloaded from the car might be lost, reports the Palm Beach Post. Barson's family says Williams "negligently operated" her vehicle at a six-lane intersection and is responsible for the crash. Barson died June 22 after suffering "severed main arteries, massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine, and massive internal organ damage," a lawsuit reads, per USA Today. Williams, however, says she had a green light when she entered the intersection and was stopped by traffic. "The on-board data of both vehicles will be critical evidence," Yombor wrote in court documents, per the Sun Sentinel, asking that the inspection not happen until "a procedure is in place to ensure that the data of each vehicle is properly collected." The judge granted the request just an hour after it was submitted Wednesday. The next hearing in the case is 2:30pm Friday.