A jury has awarded $33 million to the young twin girls who were orphaned in a tragic 2022 crash in Redwood City, in which two young men in a street race caused the violent collision along El Camino Real.

As KTVU reports, the jury award comes in a civil case against Cesar Morales, who is now 21 but who was 17 at the time of the crash on November 4, 2022. The twin girls, now 11 and then 7 years old, were in the backseat of their parents' Chevrolet Bolt when Morales, traveling at 80 or 90 miles per hour in his Mercedes, T-boned the Chevrolet and reportedly launched it airborne.

Both parents, Grace Spiridon and Gregory Ammen, were killed instantly, but both girls survived.

Investigators soon arrested Morales along with 25-year-old Kyle Harrison, and it was determined that the two, pulling up alongside one another, had spontaneously decided at an earlier intersection to race each other after a light turned green, with Harrison driving a BMW.

Harrison, who was an adult at the time of the crash, pleaded no contest in October 2024 to charges of vehicular manslaughter, was sentenced to eight years in state prison, and then was found dead in his jail cell last year, one month into that sentence, before the restitution phase of his case could proceed.

Morales was convicted in juvenile court and received only 90 days of home detention, much to the dismay of the victims' family.

In the civil trial, Morales's parents, Arnold Morales and Susana Salto Alvarez, were also found negligent, after plaintiffs' attorneys found that Morales had gotten a speeding ticket a year before the crash, when he was only 16, for going 108 miles per hour on the freeway.

"We are hopeful today’s verdict serves as a wake-up call to Bay Area parents," said the family's attorney, Niall McCarthy, in a statement to KTVU. "You cannot ignore warning signs with your teenage children. Parents need to do more than simply provide a car and hope for the best. They need to act when it is apparent their child needs a course correction. Here, tragically, two young girls no longer have parents because of the Morales family’s decisions."

McCarthy added that "there were a number of points where the parents could have taken action and this tragedy would have been avoided," including after Morales got that speeding ticket.

McCarthy said he was not able to assess the finances of Morales or his family, but he told KTVU he believed that he would be able to collect a "signficant" portion of the $33 million judgment on behalf of the twin girls, who are now being raised by their aunt and uncle.

Previously: Street-Racing Teen May Be Responsible For Crash That Killed Two Peninsula Parents