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in car crashes, pickup truck, SUV and Yamaha
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Federal regulators are asking the New Jersey company, Foreign Tire, to recall as many as 450,000 imported tires because the product was blamed for an accident that killed two people last year. More...
In a case that puts more than $2 billion in Ford Motor Co. profits at stake, plaintiffs' lawyers told a Sacramento judge Tuesday that the automaker deceived consumers by marketing its rollover-prone 1990s-era Explorers as safe replacements for family station wagons. Ford's lawyers countered that the Explorer was the safest vehicle in its class, with positive ratings from safety agencies and consumer magazines. More...
A 13-year-old Lake Charles girl died Sunday night in a Shreveport hospital following an ATV accident in south Sabine Parish, Deputy Coroner Ron Rivers said. More...
How
many kids can sit behind an SUV without being
seen by the driver in the rearview mirrors? This
is not a trick question. In fact, knowing the
answer could save a child’s life. According
to the consumer group Kids and Cars, as many
as 62 children could be in that blind zone and
you’d never know it. And that’s a
huge problem. More...
A northwest Orange County man who suffered severe brain injuries in a 1996 car accident when a seat belt failed was awarded $32.5 million Thursday by a local jury. After a third trial in a long-disputed case, an Orange Circuit Court jury ruled that a restraint-system defect caused the head injury to Mark Force, now 38. It also ruled that Ford Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. -- which designed the seat-belt system for part-owner Ford -- were negligent for failing to warn consumers about the seat-belt defect in the 1993 Ford Escort driven by Force. More...
Wal-Mart will pay a $4 million judgment to Carolyn Thorne in a lawsuit stemming from a tire failure three years go that caused a wreck and left the local woman paralyzed from her injuries. Thorne was paralyzed in a one-vehicle accident on April 24, 2004, when the tread on the left rear tire of her Ford Expedition separated, causing the SUV to flip into the median on I-85. More...
A Montgomery woman who was paralyzed in a 2004 rollover crash that occurred when the tread on one of her SUV's tires separated has been awarded $4 million in a judgment against Wal-Mart, whose service center failed to spot the defective tire. Thorne was driving her Ford Expedition to a business seminar in La Grange, Ga. when the tire tread separated and caused her to lose control, Allen said. The SUV rolled over one time and the roof was crushed down to the steering wheel, he said. More...
General
Motors Corp. vehicles had the highest and lowest
driver death rates from 2002 through 2005, according
to a study being released Thursday by the insurance
industry. Two-door, two-wheel drive Chevrolet
Blazers built from 2001 to 2004 had the highest
rate of 232 driver deaths per million registered
vehicles during the four-year span, the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety found. By contrast,
the Chevrolet Astro minivan had the lowest rate
with only seven deaths per million registered
vehicles. It was followed by the Infiniti G35,
BMW 7 Series and the Toyota 4Runner. More...
500,000 Escapes from 2001-2004 linked to potential engine fire danger
Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it was recalling more than 500,000 Ford Escape sport utility vehicles after receiving reports of engine fires linked to corrosion on antilock brake connectors. Ford said the recall involved 444,880 Escapes from the 2001-2004 model years in the United States, and about 75,000 Escapes in Canada, Mexico and Europe. The recall does not affect hybrid versions of the SUV, the automaker said. More...
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resolved thousands of personal injury cases in state
and federal courts throughout the country. For the
last five years, the National Law Journal has
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