Issues

USA Today Editorial: Secret settlements vs. your safety: Our view

June 24, 2014

Selfish wishes of a few should not override public interest.

What people don’t know can hurt them — as proven repeatedly by a system of secret justice that has grown up inside the courts.

General Motors’ handling of its Chevy Cobalts with faulty ignition switches is the latest example. GM has settled several claims by victims or their loved ones — on the condition that the terms remain secret.

Markey on GM Recall: While GM Nods, NHTSA Shrugs – 6/18/14

June 18, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact: Giselle Barry (Markey) 202-224-2742
 
 
Lawmaker outlines years of inaction by traffic safety watchdog that led to deaths due to faulty ignition switch
 

GM Senior Management Committee & Field Action Decision Committee Find Stalling is Safety Defect in 2004 Recall 04V-289 Before Ignition Switch

June 17, 2014

EA03-007 May 17, 2004 Millford Proving Ground Stalling Meeting

EA03-007 Stalling Video Availability Memo

EA03-007 GM Owner Phone Survey Results

CAS Letter to NHTSA Administrator Friedman about GM deaths

June 12, 2014

CAS Letter to NHTSA Administrator Friedman: Proper Enforcement of Stalling Recalls Could Have Prevented GM Ignition Deaths – 5/21/14

GM, NHTSA agree that stalling is not a per se safety defect: “Safety Improvement Campaign” 04V-540

GM, NHTSA agree that stalling is not a per se safety defect: “Safety Improvement Campaign” 04V-540

June 12, 2014

Click here to view the Part 573 for Saab “Safety Improvement Campaign” 04V-540

Click here to view the Dealer Instructions TSB

Senator Edward Markey Statement on CAS Report to DOT Inspector General

June 10, 2014

 

6/10/14

Below is a statement from Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, reacting to today’s letter from the Center for Auto Safety to the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General that highlights a Center study that found multiple sources of information that NHTSA failed to use to open an investigation into the faulty GM ignition switch that led to at least 13 deaths and dozens of injuries.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Markey on GM Internal Investigation: We Need This Accounting to Become Accountability

June 10, 2014

Thursday, June 5, 2014

CAS Releases Critical Study Of NHTSA’s Investigatory Process to DOT Inspector General

June 10, 2014

June 10, 2014
(202) 328-7700

Scovell Letter

June 9, 2014

Click here to view the letter

 

CAS Letter to DOT Inspector General Calvin Scovell

June 9, 2014

June 9, 2014 The Honorable Calvin L. Scovell, III Inspector General U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., 7th Floor Washington, DC 20590 Dear Inspector General Scovell: The Center for Auto Safety (CAS) is pleased that you have decided to investigate the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) role in the delayed recall…