Vehicle Fires

CAS Recall Request to William Clay Ford, Jr.

June 25, 2002

William Clay Ford, Jr., Chairman
Ford Motor Company
The American Road
Dearborn MI 48121

Dear Mr. Ford:

From the classic 1965-68 Mustang to the 1971-76 Ford Pinto both with exploding gas tanks to the 1983-87 E-series vans/ambulances with fuel systems that spurt gasoline to the 3.6 million1986-87 models with fuel line coupler separation to now the 1992-01 Crown Victoria, Grant Marquis and Lincoln Town Car with exploding fuel tanks, Ford has the worst overall record of all auto companies on motor vehicle fire safety.

November 8, 2002

CAS Letter to Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano

September 26, 2002

Honorable Janet Napolitano
Attorney General of Arizona
1275 West Washington Street
Phoenix AZ 85007

Dear Attorney General Napolitano:

We appreciate your work to try to get Ford Motor Company to recall its Crown Victoria Police Interceptors (CVPI) for defective fuel systems which explode on impact.1 The Ford dominated Technical Panel is about to make recommendations on technical fixes.

November 8, 2002

Lucky Officer Escapes with Life

Cobb cop spots stalled vehicle on I-285, and fireworks begin

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Doug Payne – Staff
Saturday, July 6, 2002

The Fourth of July ended with a fiery bang for four motorists on I-285, one of them a Cobb police officer.

Sgt. G.A. Abbott was driving westbound on the Perimeter at Paces Ferry Road at 11:45 p.m. Thursday when he saw a white Pontiac Grand Am stalled one lane in from the fast lane.

November 8, 2002

Fatal accident sparks investigation into car

By First Coast News Staff

LAKE CITY, FL – A fatal accident involving a Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy has sparked a statewide investigation into the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor.

November 8, 2002

Dallas Police Officer Dies in Flaming Car

10/24/2002

By ROBERT THARP and TONY HARTZEL / The Dallas Morning News

An off-duty Dallas police officer working traffic control in an overnight freeway construction zone died in his flaming patrol car early Wednesday after being struck by what police called a speeding drunken driver.

Officer Patrick Metzler, 31, was at the wheel of a police cruiser that was slammed into from behind just after 1 a.m. in the closed right lane in the High Five construction area where Central Expressway intersects with LBJ Freeway.

November 8, 2002

Mourners Remember Cab Driver

By Bobby Cuza
STAFF WRITER

October 28, 2002

Mourners on Monday remembered taxi driver Mohammed Yousuf, who was killed Friday in Woodside when his cab was rear-ended and burst into flames â€” an incident that has prompted calls for a class-action lawsuit against the Ford Motor Co.

More than 90 percent of the cityâ€™s yellow taxis are Ford Crown Victorias, which came under federal scrutiny after a dozen police officers died after their carsâ€™ gas tank caught fire in rear-end collisions.

November 8, 2002