Caitlyn Jenner avoiding car accident questions: court filing

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Caitlyn Jenner is avoiding questions about the honest car accident she was caught up in, according to a court filing.

Caitlyn Jenner is avoiding questions about her honest car accident and should be mandatory to sit for a deposition, the stepchildren of victim Kim Howe claim in a new court filing.

Lawyers for the step kids have filed a motion to compel testimony, claiming Jenner was a no-show at a June 25 deposition and has refused to provide alternate dates.

“Contrary to Ms. Jenner’s claim that she is cooperating, she failed to show for her deposition, and she has taken the 5th Amendment to avoid answering even the most basic written discovery we have served,” lawyer Jeffrey Wolf said in a statement to the Day after day News on Tuesday.

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“Ms. Jenner should start cooperating with any and all efforts to further investigate this crash that took Ms. Howe’s life,” Wolf said.

Jenner’s lawyers previously objected to June deposition dates saying they looked-for more time and arguing that Howe’s stepkids lacked standing to even bring the lawsuit.

Stepdaughter Dana Redmond and stepson William Howe filed their lawsuit in May claiming Jenner was “careless, negligent and/or otherwise responsible” for causing their stepmom’s death.

Jenner – who had yet to publicly transition from Bruce to Caitlyn at the time of the Feb. 7 crash – was driving a Cadillac Escalade on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu when she rear-finished Howe in a manner that pushed the Calabasas widow into the path of an oncoming Hummer.

Howe, 69, died at the scene.

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Jenner – who had yet to publicly transition from Bruce to Caitlyn at the time of the Feb. 7 crash – was driving a Cadillac Escalade on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu when she rear-finished Kim Howe in a manner that pushed the Calabasas widow into the path of an oncoming Hummer.

After hitting Howe, Jenner’s SUV kept going and crashed into the back of a black Prius piloted by Hollywood talent administrator Jessica Steindorff.

Steindorff also is suing Jenner and blasted the former Olympic athlete for accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Awared at the 2015 ESPY Awards last week without first taking responsibility for the devastating four-car wreck.

“I find it hard to know how the culture we live in can honor a person who is responsible for taking a life and injuring several others with both an award and a reality show,” she said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight.

“I would hope that someone who seems to greatly value the importance of human existence would be more sensitive to the fact that she finished another person’s life,” she said.

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Jenner’s lawyers previously objected to June deposition dates saying they looked-for more time and arguing that Kim Howe’s (pictured) stepkids lacked standing to even bring the lawsuit.

Jenner, 65, is not expected to face any felony charges after the case is open to prosecutors, a law enforcement source previously told The News.

Investigators found evidence of two possible misdemeanor infractions: following too closely and driving at an unsafe speed for the prevailing conditions, the source said.

Prosecutors could slap Jenner with misdemeanor manslaughter, but that is not a common charge and the investigation did not find anything “egregious,” the law enforcement source said.

During her acceptance speech at the ESPYs, Jenner said she hoped to encourage others to “accept people for who they are.”

ndillon@nydailynews.com

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