Automobile Lawsuit News
Ford Motor Co. will have to pay $3.3 million according to a Florida jury. The
air bag lawsuit has come to close after a woman’s 2000 car accident in
her 1996 Ford Taurus caused the air bag to go off and resulted in fatal chest
i njuries. The single mother left behind a now 7-year old son.
According to the air bag lawsuit, older air bags can cause deadly problems
for people of any size if they are too close to it when it is disarmed.
The air bag in the 1996 Taurus went off after the woman hit a concrete wall
at about 9mph.
The air bag was designed to go off in head-on crashes at 14 mph or faster,
but only in certain situations at 9 mph. The auto lawsuit argued the air
bag was defectively designed to go off in crashes slower than 10 mph when
it was not needed, resulting in the single mother’s death. The $3.3
million award to be paid to the 7-year old son was decided after the civil
jury found the air bag system in the Taurus to be defective.
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