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Lieff Cabraser attorneys Robert J. Nelson and Scott Nealey discuss a wrongful death lawsuit based on a transmission defect in millions of Chrysler vehicles.

Vehicle Safety News

July 18, 2005

San Francisco Chronicle, "Semi crashes on I-80, killing 3"

Three people were killed and 10 others injured Monday when the driver of a tractor trailer lost control on Interstate 80 in Fairfield and plowed into seven vehicles, authorities said. The accident happened at 8:47 a.m. and closed the four westbound lanes of I-80 just east of Highway 12 for nearly 90 minutes as emergency workers tended to the injured and cleared the roadway.

The chain reaction leading to the collision began when the truck driver apparently lost control in the slow lane and struck seven vehicles in front of him as they slowed because of congested traffic. It is unclear how fast he was going. The driver of the 1996 Ford Thunderbird directly in front of the big rig saw it bearing down and veered onto the shoulder to avoid it. The truck clipped the Thunderbird before hitting a Honda minivan carrying the three people killed in the wreck. An infant and two grandparents in the van were also critically injured and flown to UC Davis Medical Center.

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Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, is a national plaintiffs' law firm of over 50 lawyers with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Our attorneys are recognized for the successful prosecution of lawsuits involving deaths, personal injuries and property damage due to defective products, including dangerous and defective vehicles.

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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