Issues
A Safety Matter [Lincoln Town Car Fuel Tank]
Family of sisters who died in a fiery wreck is suing Ford Motor Co., saying it should have installed a shield soonerBy James RomoserWinston-Salem JournalSunday, October 16, 2005
San Antonio police officer killed in car accident
10/14/2005
Maria M. Moreno
Express-News Staff Writer
An officer who survived a violent shootout with armed robbers about two years ago died this morning in a fiery crash on Loop 410 and Culebra Road. John Wheeler, a 12-year veteran, was apparently looking out for speeders when a car traveling at least 90 mph rear-ended Wheeler’s patrol car, police said. Both cars caught on fire.
Police spokesman Sgt. Gabe Trevino said both drivers were trapped inside their cars.
Officer killed in wreck was shot in 2003
10/15/2005
Maria M. Moreno
Express-News Staff Writer
He miraculously survived two bullets from an AK-47 that left gaping holes in his neck and leg.
He endured weeks on a hospital bed and months of rehabilitation to regain the ability to drive, shower, walk.
Early Friday, about nine months after he’d finally recovered enough to return to patrolling the West Side, Officer John Wheeler died, trapped in his burning patrol car.
Military wife leads effort to strengthen state’s [Oklahoma’s] ‘lemon law’
Gallant charge
Military wife leads effort to strengthen state’s ‘lemon law’
Enid News & Eagle (Oklahoma) 3/7/2005
Wire and Staff reports
OKLAHOMA CITY With a soft-spoken manner and diminutive 3-year-old daughter on her hip, Angie Gallant is an unlikely advocate as she walks the halls of the state Capitol corralling lawmakers in a quest for reform.
Justices Reject Bid to Halt Air Bag Suit [1997-99 Chevy Malibu, Olds Cutlass]
The Supreme Court lets stand a lower court ruling that allows a nationwide class-action case against GM to move forward in Oklahoma.
From Bloomberg News
October 12, 2005
General Motors Corp., the world’s largest automaker, lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to stop a lawsuit contending that 420,000 cars were equipped with air bags that might deploy unnecessarily.
Troopers identify five killed in fiery wreck on I-95
Published on Wednesday, November 13, 2002
in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
PEMBROKE PARK – Troopers Wednesday morning identified the taxi driver and four Midwest tourists who were killed when their cab collided with a gasoline tanker truck and an 18-wheeler flatbed on Interstate 95 a day earlier.
The cab driver was identified as Jean Carlos Gernier, 36, of Miami. The passengers killed in his cab were Bryant Pendleton, 42; wife Angela Pendelton, 41; John Madison, 49; and wife Francis Madison, 48, all of St. Louis, Mo.
Center wants to know if [Honda] witness altered evidence
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By Harry Stoffer
Automotive News / October 03, 2005
Group tries to unseal court files
By Art Campos
The Sacramento Bee
Thursday, September 29, 2005A public interest law firm representing trial lawyers is seeking to unseal a 2002 Placer County judge’s finding that an automaker’s defense expert had destroyed evidence.
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in Washington, D.C., alleges that the sealed document prevents their clients from challenging the credibility of the expert, who continues to be used as a witness by automakers in other cases.
CAS Testimony Before NY Senate on Crown Victoria Fires
Statement of Clarence M. Ditlow
Executive Director, Center for Auto Safety
On Ford Crown Victoria Fuel Fed Crash Fires
Before the New York State Senate Committee
on Investigations, Taxation, and Government Operations
March 11, 2003
Ford offers Town Car limo owners safety kit
Vehicles share same gasoline tank design as fire-prone Crown Victoria police cruisers.
By Jeff Plungis / Detroit News Washington Bureau
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