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Letter to William Clay Ford, Jr. from Ralph Nader
September 7, 2005
William Clay Ford, Jr.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Ford Motor Company
1 American Road
Dearborn, MI 48126
Dear Mr. Ford:
As you are aware, an ongoing defect investigation of Ford Motor Company
trucks and SUVs is being undertaken by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration due to high rates of speed control deactivation
switch (SCDS) failure and related engine compartment fire.
Letter to NHTSA Administrator Runge from Ralph Nader
August 26, 2005
Jeffrey W. Runge, M.D.
Administrator
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
400 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20590Â
Dear Administrator Runge:
Danger Under the Hood
A little girl dies; attention turns to a faulty Ford part
More than 500 fires reported in pickups, SUVs; probe centers on cruise-control switch.
Woman's 911 call: 'My garage is on fire!'
Iowa farmer: Ford ignited deadly blaze; company denies blame
WESTGATE, Iowa (CNN) — Earl Mohlis says he has no doubt the fire that burned down his house last month, killing his wife of 34 years, started under the hood of his 1996 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and he is suing the company, he says, to prevent more deaths.
Ford Motor Company has concluded the truck did not cause the fire.
Woman’s 911 call: ‘My garage is on fire!’
Iowa farmer: Ford ignited deadly blaze; company denies blame
WESTGATE, Iowa (CNN) — Earl Mohlis says he has no doubt the fire that burned down his house last month, killing his wife of 34 years, started under the hood of his 1996 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and he is suing the company, he says, to prevent more deaths.
Ford Motor Company has concluded the truck did not cause the fire.
Ford document: Millions of vehicles have fire risk part
KISSIMMEE, Florida (CNN) — Early this year, Laura Hernandez nudged her husband, Nestor Oyola, as he slept in their Kissimmee home and asked him to put the Ford Expedition he had bought her the day before into the garage.
She did not want to risk leaving it on the street, where it might be vandalized.
"That was my dream, to have a Ford Expedition," she recalled to CNN about the $22,000 Eddie Bauer 2001 model SUV — green with gold trim and leather seats.
Oyola moved the Expedition and they went to sleep.
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