August 18, 2008 |
Tulsa World , "ATV crashes kill two, hurt one" |
Two people died and a third person was injured in all-terrain vehicle accidents over the weekend, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. More... |
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August 18, 2008 |
News-Express, "Yamaha Rhino ATV accidents claim two lives over weekend" |
An ATV accident on Sunday claimed the life of a 12-year-old Dorton girl. More... |
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August 4, 2008
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Shreveport Times, "Child killed in Bienville Mitsubishi SUV rollover"
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| A 12-year-old died Sunday when a sport utility vehicle rolled several times in Bienville Parish. The 2002 Mitsubishi Montero was headed east when it drove into the median. The driver got the vehicle back onto the highway but over corrected, police said. The child, who was sitting in the SUV's cargo area, was ejected and killed. More...
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August 2, 2008
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The Salt Lake Tribune, "Two die on I-15 in Mitsubishi SUV rollover near Provo"
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| An SUV carrying seven people traveling to a soccer tournament in Salt Lake City rolled on Interstate 15 near Provo Saturday, killing a woman and a teenager. Police said a Mitsubishi SUV carrying two adults, four 15-year-old boys and a 13-year-old boy lost control for an unknown reason. The SUV ran off the road on the right side, and when the driver pulled it back to the road she over-corrected and the vehicle rolled. More...
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July 28, 2008
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| Rapid City Journal, "Man killed in Mitsubishi SUV rollover crash" |
| Marc Dreis, 49, of Meadow was killed early Sunday morning in an accident when he was driving east on state Hwy. 20 about 17 miles east of Bison in Perkins County. The highway patrol said his 2006 Mitsubishi crossed the centerline and went into the north ditch, where he overcorrected, causing the vehicle to roll several times, coming to rest on its wheels. More... |
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June 28, 2008 |
Press Republican (New
York), "10-year-old
saves dad's life in flipped Yamaha Rhino ATV" |
| Lifting up an all-terrain
vehicle, running almost a mile and driving a large diesel
truck sound like the actions of a grown man or woman.
However, it was these feats that 11-year-old Ryan Mills
accomplished last year to save his father's life. On
April 9, 2007, Ryan, who was 10 at the time, was riding
with his father, Albert Mills, on a Yamaha Rhino ATV
through the woods near their home in Clintonville. The
vehicle flipped on a turn and landed on top of Albert,
pinning one of his legs underneath. More... |
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June 23, 2008 |
| Nashville Post, "Local
attorney takes on Ford over vehicle fires" |
The big cases
that plaintiff's lawyer Mark
Chalos is pursuing right now are all about switches
and ashes. Chalos, a partner at the local office
of the national litigation firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP, has filed suit against Ford Motor Co. on behalf
of Nicole and Duanisha Mathews, who narrowly escaped
from a burning Goodlettsville home one morning in June
of last year. The lawsuit, filed in Davidson County Circuit
Court on June 13, claims that a 2000 Ford Expedition
- parked in the home's garage with its engine off - started
the fire. More... |
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June 20, 2008 |
Fulton County Daily Report, "Federal
Jury Awards $3.5 Million for Fatal Rollover of General
Motors Chevy Blazer SUV" |
A federal jury on Tuesday found General
Motors at fault in a rollover accident that killed a
14-year-old boy, awarding his parents $3.5 million following
a two-week trial. There was never an offer to settle
and GM's attorneys have announced their intention to
ask the judge to set aside the verdict. More... |
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June 9, 2008 |
Portfolio Media, "Jury:
Bad Brakes To Cost Kia $6M" |
A New Jersey jury has handed
consumers a $6 million victory in a product liability
class action alleging that certain models of Kia Motors
America Inc.'s Sephia had defective brakes. The verdict,
rendered Friday in the Superior Court of New Jersey in
Union County, N.J., came after a month-long trial in
which jurors found that a class of New Jersey consumers
was entitled to receive $6,029,250 in damages due to
a defect design in the brake system of the 1995-2001
Kia Sephia. More... |
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June 4, 2008 |
Detroit Free Press, "Rules on car roofs need to be better, senators warn" |
Key U.S. senators warned federal auto safety regulators today that Congress would act if regulators produce unacceptable and ineffective rules for strengthening vehicle roofs to protect people in rollover crashes. The debate over the exact cause of deaths in rollover accidents, which claimed 9,362 lives in 2006, and how much blame rests with a vehicle's roof strength has raged for years among safety advocates and automakers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been working on a new plan for boosting roof-crush standards ahead of a July 1 deadline, since its first proposal issued in August 2005 faced sharp criticism from automakers and safety groups. More... |
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May 28, 2008 |
Southeast Texas Record, "Suit
alleges Yamaha 'Rhino' ATV unreasonably dangerous" |
While riding as a passenger in a Yamaha
Rhino on a relatively flat terrain, Bossier City resident
Ryan Rogers was injured when the ATV rolled toward the
passenger side. Alleging the ATV was unreasonably dangerous,
Ryan and Janison Rogers filed suit against Yamaha USA,
Yamaha Manufacturing and Yamaha Motor on May 27 in the
Marshall division of the Eastern District of Texas. More... |
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May 19, 2008 |
Detroit News, "NHTSA
to investigate 1.7 million Ford Windstar vans for cruise
control defect" |
The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration opened a preliminary defect investigation
into 1.7 million Ford Windstar vans. The vehicles have
a cruise control deactivation switch that's been recalled
in nearly 10 million other Ford vehicles. NHTSA said
they've received 130 complaints of fires in the vans,
with 36 complaints in the last year. Two of the fires
caused structural damage to homes, NHTSA said. More... |
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May 16, 2008 |
3TV (Phoenix, AZ), "Teen dies in Yamaha Rhino ATV rollover accident" |
A 15-year-old boy has died of injuries he suffered during an off-road-vehicle rollover Friday afternoon in the far Northwest Valley. Maricopa County Sheriff's Investigators said the boy was among four teens riding on the small four-wheeled Yamaha vehicle called a Rhino when it overturned near 102nd Avenue and Jomax Road at about 4:00pm. The teen was taken to a local hospital where he died of his injuries. The other three teenage boys were not seriously hurt.
To learn more about Yamaha Rhino rollover injuries and lawsuits, please visit www.yamaharhinorolloverandrecall.com. |
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April 13, 2008 |
New York Times, Faulty Ford cruise control switch blamed for 1,500 fires |
After six recalls to correct problems
with millions of Ford Motor Company cruise-control switches
blamed for almost 1,500 fires, the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration took an unusual step. In February,
it issued a consumer advisory urging owners whose vehicles
had not yet been fixed to have the switches disconnected
immediately. More... |
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March 12, 2008 |
CNN, "Study
links rollover deaths to weak roofs on cars" |
The insurance industry released a major
study on Wednesday regarding rollover auto accidents.
More than ten thousand people die each year in rollover
crashes. The study, which was conducted by the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety, concluded that many of
these deaths could be prevented with stronger roofs on
vehicles. Rollovers are violent accidents, and the institute
says roofs that crush can too easily lead to needless
deaths and injuries. The institute tested the roofs of
sports utility vehicles to see how much pressure they
could take before collapsing. Although the models looked
the same afterward, the force it took to crush each one
varied. More... |
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February 27, 2008 |
Portfolio Media (NY), "Mitsubishi
Ordered To Pay $11M In SUV Death Case" |
A Florida state court jury ordered Mitsubishi
Motors Corp. to pay $11 million to the parents of a 25-year-old
man who died after being thrown through the window of
a Mitsubishi sport utility vehicle in a 2004 crash. On
Tuesday, the jury found that there was a design defect
in the SUV and that the defect caused Scott Laliberte's
death, according an attorney for the plaintiffs (Laliberte's
parents). The jury award totaled $11 million in compensatory
damages. More... |
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February 26, 2008 |
Palm Beach Post , "Mitsubishi
must pay $11 million to family of man ejected from
SUV" |
In a products liability case watched
across continents, a jury this afternoon ordered Mitsubishi
Motors to pay nearly $11 million in damages to a Maine
couple whose son died after being partially ejected from
a Nativa SUV. More... |
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February 25, 2008 |
IV Press Online, "Two
Young Persons Killed Yesterday by Yamaha Rhinos at
Same Dunes" |
The names of victims involved in two
separate fatal crashes that occurred within hours of
each other at the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area
were released Monday. Yucaipa resident Stephanie Ann
Katin, 26, was killed Saturday after being partially
ejected from a rented Yamaha Rhino all-terrain vehicle
that slid sideways down a 30-foot sand dune. More... |
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February 25, 2008 |
Detroit News, "Ford faces lengthy lawsuits" |
Carmaker wins merger of cases in Texas
over faulty switches, but it still has other court fights.
Ford Motor Co. won a legal battle last week to merge 77
lawsuits filed in Texas over a series of fires linked to
a faulty cruise control deactivation switch. But the Dearborn
automaker still faces many other court fights stemming
from a series of engine fires linked to a faulty switch
in 10 million vehicles that Ford has recalled in seven
campaigns since 1999. Combined, the campaigns represent
one of the largest recalls in U.S. history. The $21 Texas
Instruments switches were installed in 16 million Ford
vehicles over a decade before the automaker stopped using
them in 2002. The switches have been linked to nearly 550
vehicle fires and 1,500 complaints. And now Ford faces
more than 125 lawsuits around the country. More... |
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February 4, 2008 |
Palm Beach Post, "Suit
Blames Mitsubishi For Design Flaws In Rollover Crash" |
A Maine couple has gone to court against
Mitsubishi Motors claiming the auto giant covered up
design flaws that caused the death of their 25-year-old
son. In the first day of what is expected to be a three-week
trial, attorneys representing Donna and Peter Laliberte
told a Palm Beach County jury that the auto manufacturer
was well aware of defects with the seat belt and seat
recliner in the Montero Sport. In fact, the plaintiffs
charged that Mitsubishi took the unprecedented step of
putting out a new version of the Montero Sport halfway
through the 2000 model year to correct the flaws. |
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January 18, 2008 |
AP, "Auto
Recalls Increase in 2007" |
Automakers recalled nearly 15 million
vehicles for repairs at dealerships last year, the government
reported Thursday, an increase of about 30 percent over
2006. Automakers issued 588 separate recalls involving
14.5 million vehicles in 2007, or about 30 percent more
vehicles than the previous year, according to data released
by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
In 2006, the industry recalled 11.2 million vehicles
as part of 490 individual recalls. More... |
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