NATIONAL—Fiat Chrysler, the manufacturer of Dodge Ram, is recalling more than 1.7 million trucks for steering wheel and airbag issues.As one of the largest automobile manufactures in the world, this recall will affect trucks in the US, Canada, Mexico, and other countries around the globe. In total, three separate recalls have been issued covering a…
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY – This past weekend thirteen (13) teenagers sustained non-life threatening injuries when the van they were in flipped on Interstate 275 near Lois Avenue in Tampa. Law enforcement officials said, the van blew a tire and crashed into the median. Several fire rescue units and ambulance crews treated the passengers and the driver….
NATIONAL – A woman was awarded $8.5 million dollars in Ford SUV rollover – product liability case. The month long trial from 2005 centered around a rollover wreck of a Mercury Mountaineer (Ford) near Douglasville, Georgia. The accident killed two people and injured two others. The driver had her right leg amputated just below the…
TAMPA – According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff, a roll-over crash has killed one person and closed a stretch of road in Tampa. One person died when a Ford Explorer SUV flipped over several times just after 3 a.m. on Memorial Highway near George Road. Two others were injured an transported to local hospitals. Memorial…
NATIONAL – According to Bloomberg News, “Toyota Motor Corp., its units, lawyers and any other employees were ordered by a U.S. judge to preserve all documents about the ‘crashworthiness’ of its vehicles after the carmaker was accused of destroying lawsuit evidence.” The order stems from a lawsuit in which a former in-house attorney for Toyota,…
NATIONAL – Toyota Motor Corp.’s request to seal a U.S. lawsuit by a former in-house attorney claiming the carmaker destroyed crash data was denied yesterday by a judge who said the suit was already ‘irreversibly’ public. The suit, filed in July by Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota in-house lawyer, claims the world’s largest automaker hid…
NATIONWIDE – In a column in the Wall Street Journal (8/25), Joseph White writes that beginning with 2010 models, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety will require that vehicles meet higher standards for roof strength in order to receive its top safety pick rating. In addition, starting with 2011 models, the National Highway Traffic Safety…
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY – The I-275 Ashley Street exit in downtown Tampa was closed after the fatal 3:15 a.m. crash. A man was killed early Friday when his SUV failed to navigate the curve on the Interstate 275 southbound exit on Ashley Street. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the man was killed at 3:15 a.m….
NATIONWIDE – CBS News (8/4) on its website reported that the Yamaha Rhino off-road vehicle “is at the center of a legal firestorm. At least 59 riders have been killed in Rhino accidents, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. More than 440 wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits are pending, and Yamaha has settled…
LADY LAKE — A young boy has died after the 4×4 he was riding on crashed over the weekend. The Florida Highway Patrol said a 12-year-old was riding the utility vehicle Sunday night when it somehow flipped over. The boy’s brother, was pinned underneath, and was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children with critical…
