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. 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. Jerome Barson suffered “severed main arteries, massive internal bleeding, a fractured spine and massive internal organ damage,” according to the lawsuit.  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. She has advanced to the third round of the Wimbledon tournament in London and is scheduled to play Japan’s Naomi Osaka Friday morning. 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. 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. Both the Accent and Williams’ 2010 Toyota Sequoia are being stored at a West Palm Beach tow yard, records show. 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. “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. Shortly after 1 p.m that day, the Barsons’ car collided with Williams’ SUV at Northlake Boulevard and BallenIsles Drive. "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. 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. 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. 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. “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.
– 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.