The family of the critically injured victim of a street racing crash involving Hulk Hogan's son filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the wrestler, his estranged wife, his son and another man with negligence, the family's attorney said.

The lawsuit filed in Pinellas County, Fla., by John Graziano's family cites one count of negligence against Hogan's son, Nick Bollea, three counts of negligence against Terry Bollea (Hogan), one against Linda Bollea (Bollea's mother and Hogan's wife) and a final count against Daniel Jacobs, the driver of the Dodge Viper that Bollea was racing.

Clearwater, Fla., police said the Aug. 26, 2007, crash happened when Bollea crashed his 1998 Toyota Supra while street racing against a silver Dodge Viper driven by a friend. A report said Bollea was driving faster than 60 mph in a 40 mph zone.

Bollea's passenger, Graziano - a 22-year-old Marine who served in Iraq - was not wearing a seat belt and was critically injured. Bollea, 17, who was wearing a seat belt, was not seriously injured. Graziano suffered serious head wounds, and his family says he will require medical care for the rest of his life.

The Graziano family is claiming in the lawsuit that Hogan and Linda Bollea should have known that their son was a reckless driver, and were also aware that their son was drinking on the day of the crash.

Bollea faces a felony charge of reckless driving with serious bodily injury. In November, his license was suspended for six months for allegedly having a blood alcohol level of 0.055 percent as a minor at the time of the accident, said Ann Nucatola, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles.

He was also clocked in April 2007 driving 106 mph.

Besides the reckless driving charge, authorities cited Bollea for using a motor vehicle in commission of a felony, being a driver under 21 operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol level of 0.02 percent or higher and having illegal window tinting.

The blood-alcohol level at which Florida law presumes an adult driver to be impaired is 0.08 percent.

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