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Ford Truck Rollover
Accidents and Crashes |
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| The safety of Ford F-150,
Ford Ranger, Ford Expedition and F series and E
series pickup trucks has been called into question
because of alleged safety defects and rollover
risks with the vehicles. |
| A rollover crash can
happen in any type of vehicle. Pickup trucks
and SUVs, however, are not as safe as many
consumers believe because they ride higher
from the ground than passenger cars. This makes
pickups and SUVs more likely to roll over in
a crash. |
| When rollover accidents
occur, they are often fatal. In 2002, sixty-one
percent of all occupant fatalities in sport
utility vehicles (SUVs) and 45 percent of pickup
truck deaths were the result of a rollover
crash. By comparison, only 22 percent of passenger
car fatalities in 2002 were the result of a
rollover crash. |
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| Lieff
Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP represents persons injured
in vehicle accidents. Click
here to submit your case. |
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| As reported by The
Detroit News on May 2, 2004, documents released
in court suits indicated that Ford Motor Company
overruled its own safety engineers' recommendations
to recall up to 4.1 million pickups and sport
utility vehicles that they found had substandard
door latches. |
| A Ford safety engineering
team determined in March 2000 that door latches
on certain 1997-2000 light trucks didn't meet
federal safety standards. The trucks include
the popular F-150, F-250, Expedition and Lincoln
Navigator models, according to internal Ford
memos made public as several lawsuits against
Ford. |
| After the recommendations,
according to press reports, Ford ordered immediate
design changes for future vehicles. But the
automaker decided against a recall, which could
have cost up to $527 million. The company determined
instead that the latches could pass a rarely
used alternative compliance test. |
| Multiple personal
injury lawsuits have been filed against Ford
claiming that Ford trucks suffer door latch
failures in rollover accidents, which resulted
in greater injuries or deaths to the driver
and passengers. The law permits drivers and
passengers and the families of loved ones who
have died in rollover crashes or suffered injuries
when doors opened in an accident to bring claims
against Ford. |
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| Damages sought have included
punitive damages for manufacturing the Ford pickups
with alleged, known safety defects and include
general and compensatory damages for: |
- Wrongful death;
- Past and future physical pain and suffering,
mental anguish and physical impairment;
- Past and future medical, incidental and hospital
expenses; and
- Past and future loss of earnings and earning
capacity
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| Lieff
Cabraser represents persons who have been injured
or killed in accidents involving Ford vehicles.
Please click
here to contact a Lieff Cabraser attorney. |
| Alternatively, you may
call Lieff Cabraser toll-free at 1-866-313-1973
and ask to speak to partner Kathryn E. Barnett. |
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| Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP, is a national law firm of over 50 lawyers with offices in San Francisco,
New York and Nashville. Our attorneys are recognized
for the successful prosecution of lawsuits involving deaths, personal injuries
and property damage due to defective products, including in the field of vehicle
safety. |
| In 2007, in the case
of Mraz
v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser
attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained
the fourth largest verdict in California for
the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that
a defective
transmission was responsible for making
a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and
run over Richard Mraz. |
| Currently, we are
prosecuting personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits involving cars, vans,
pickup trucks, SUVs, the Yamaha Rhino and other
vehicles. To learn more about the firm, click
here. |
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| About Lieff Cabraser:
Drivers and passengers injured in auto crashes and pickup truck and SUV rollover
accidents, or families of loved ones who died, may be eligible to file lawsuits
against other drivers at fault or against the manufacturer of their vehicle if
the accident was due to a safety defect. Safety defects can include a high risk
of rolling
over, tire tread
separation, seat
belt failures and other defects. Learn
more... |
| We have offices in San
Francisco, New York and Nashville.
Our car crash accident lawyers and auto accident attorneys have represented
clients in personal injury, auto accident, SUV rollover and vehicle safety defect
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