Posts tagged Automobile Defects

• Advanced Vehicle Safety Systems Becoming Available

  IB Contributor | January 12, 2007 10:04 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Stereo Systems Are Standard Features, Why Aren't Safety Features Standard? An interesting article by Ken Thomas of the Associated Press talks about the different things automakers are trying to make vehicles safer for drivers, passengers and pedestrians. According to a telephone poll cited in the article: Safety remains a competitive issue for manufacturers and a major selling point at...

• Department of Transportation "Beefing Up" 5-Star Rating

  IB Contributor | January 09, 2007 8:31 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  How about a real crash worthiness rating system?The U.S. Department of Transportation will be beefing up its requirements for the "five-star" safety rating (highest government rating), much coveted by automakers, according to an announcement made Monday by U. S. Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters at the International Auto Show in Detroit.The department's proposals are outlined in the New...

• Do Fewer Recalls Mean Safer Vehicles?

  IB Contributor | January 08, 2007 12:29 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Detroit Free Press on Sunday concluded that most of the big auto makers "slashed the number of cars and trucks recalled in the United States in 2006 by 38 percent, as General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. made good on pledges to reduce safety-related defects in their vehicles."The newspaper's analysis of federal data shows, according to the article, that auto manufacturers have gotten...

• Another Fatality Due To A Defective Seat Belt?

  IB Contributor | January 02, 2007 7:46 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Did his seat belt fail him when he needed it most?Was the victim of a fatal auto accident, who was ejected from the vehicle he was riding in, wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident? Or was he another victim of a defectively designed seat belt that failed when he needed it most? Only an investigation by a team of experts before the evidence is contaminated will be able to tell. A...

• Honda Tried To "Win By Cheating"

  IB Contributor | December 30, 2006 8:07 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Tiral Laywers For Public Justice, Wins Victory For JusticeAmerica Honda Motor Company (Honda) "deliberately" destroyed evidence in an auto defect case brought be a (then) 17 year old who became a quadriplegic due to a restraint system (seat belt) failure in her Honda Civic, according to the trial judge's sanction decision in Davis v. Honda (California Superior Court). The judge's decision found...

• 1999 - 2001 Ford Explorer, Dangerously Unsafe Roof

  IB Contributor | December 29, 2006 10:13 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Many Ford Explorer SUVs, from the 1999 to 2001 model years, do not meet a crucial safety requirement intended to protect passengers in rollover crashes according to a safety engineering firm we regular call upon as expert witnesses in our Ford and SUV rollover cases.Safety Analysis and Forensic Engineering, which has performed a great deal of research and testing for us, has formed the opinion...

• Roof Crush Intrusion - "Deadly By Design" Expose

  IB Contributor | December 25, 2006 3:00 PM | 2 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In response to my Dec. 23, 2006 "The Most Deadly Vehicle" article, I received an email from Paula Lawlor, a roof crush consultant, who has co-authored, along with Todd Tracy, "Deadly By Design". According to its authors, "Deadly By Design" is "An expose of the weak government standard that has lead to more than three decades of unnecessary fatalities and catastrophic injuries in rollover...

• The Most Deadly Vehicle - The 15-Passenger Van

  IB Contributor | December 23, 2006 12:56 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Why haven't they been recalled?There is no doubt, the evidence is clear, the fifteen-passenger van is the most dangerous vehicle on our roads. It is the vehicle most likely to be involved in a single-vehicle rollover accident. Rollover accidents are the most deadly type of traffic accident on our highways today. The fifteen-passenger van is the extra-long van that is commonly used by airport...

• Rollover Automobile Accidents - 11 Times More Deadly

  IB Contributor | December 15, 2006 6:12 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As I look back at the clients we have represented this year and the types of cases we have pursued on their behalf, a startling statisic emerges. We pursued more rollover accident cases against automobile manufacturers than any other type of auto defect case. It was also clear that our auto defect cases that involved the rollover of a passenger vehicle, the injuries sustained were...