A Georgia jury has ordered the automobile manufacturer Chrysler to pay $150 million for the 2012 death of a boy who was caught in a Jeep gas tank fire, Bloomberg reports. The jury found Chrysler guilty of recklessly designing the gas tank of the 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee model, which burst into flames and killed a 4-year-old boy.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) may consider reopening its investigation into fuel tank–related fires involving Chrysler’s recalled Jeep models. According to the Bloomberg article, chief of NHTSA Mark Rosekind said that repairs to the recalled Jeeps “should be done faster, and we want to see that 100 percent. Everything is on the table for us to look at.” The announcement comes only weeks after a ...
Toyota is recalling 766,300 cars and trucks in the United States for continued risk of shrapnel from passenger-side airbags. Toyota recalled vehicles in April 2013 for the same issue, but has discovered that the supplier, the Takata Corporation, may not have provided a comprehensive list of all of the cars that were potentially affected.
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The first Takata airbag lawsuit has been filed in a South Carolina federal court over defective airbags found in Honda cars. The plaintiff claims to have sustained injuries from flying shrapnel after the airbag in her Honda deployed during an accident. An article by The State reports that the claim has been filed in a U.S. District Court in Columbia, South Carolina.
The plaintiff is a twenty-one-year-old woman who ...
continue reading...Following at least four deaths and a recent crash in Florida, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) has made an urgent call for the repair of airbag inflation mechanisms in millions of vehicles. CBS of Dallas/Fort Worth reports on the recent warning issued to more than 4.7 million consumers. The urgent warning has been issued because the mechanisms that rapidly inflates airbags could explode and spray metal shards into the driver’s ...
GM has released the report of an internal investigation on its handling of the faulty ignition switches that caused its most recent recall. The details of the information point to a pattern of “incompetence and neglect” as employees were found to have known about the problems for years. The report brings to light dozens of employees’ failures to act despite knowledge of the ignition switch defects that led to an unknown number ...
