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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

December 6, 2006

Associated Press, "GM opens rollover test facility; automaker hopes to develop sensors for special air bags to help prevent ejections"

General Motors Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a $10-million crash test facility that will help the automaker study rollover crashes. The Detroit-based company also said that by 2012 it would make rollover-enabled air bags a standard feature on all its retail vehicles. The air bags currently are used on 43% of GM's trucks.

GM said it planned to perform 150 rollover tests next year at its Milford Proving Grounds to help it better understand rollover crashes, which in 2005 accounted for about 4% of all crashes but 33% of occupants of passenger vehicles who were killed on the nation's highways. Engineers demonstrated a rollover test during the facility's unveiling, which was attended by Nicole Nason, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. GM hopes to find ways to keep people from being ejected in rollovers and develop sensors for rollover-enabled air bags, which can help reduce injuries and prevent ejections.

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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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