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Vehicle Safety News

July 17, 2005

The Detroit News, "Safety Agency Widens Investigation; NHTSA awaits Ford's internal report into the questionable part, which is in 16 million vehicles"

With reports of vehicle fires mounting, Ford Motor Co. is racing to meet a mid-August deadline to provide federal investigators with details of its analysis of faulty cruise-control deactivation switches. More than 500 fires have been reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Ford F-150 pickups, and Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.

In January, Ford announced it was recalling more than 700,000 pickups and SUVs to disconnect switches in the engine compartment that could overheat and cause fires. In March, NHTSA opened a broader investigation into 3.7 million additional vehicles with potentially the same problem. A NHTSA spokesman said this week that the agency is deeply involved in its investigation of the switches, but is awaiting Ford's internal data on switch failures. As many as 16 million Ford vehicles have switches similar to those in the recalled pickups and SUVs. But NHTSA has yet to make public its analysis of other vehicles, and doesn't expect to do so soon.

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In 2007, in Mraz v. DaimlerChrysler, Lieff Cabraser attorneys, with local co-counsel, obtained the fourth-largest verdict in California for the year. At trial, plaintiffs showed that a defective transmission was responsible for making a Dodge Dakota pickup shift into reverse and run over Richard Mraz.

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