Legal News Articles - Automotive

Honda Expands Defective Airbag Recall

January 21, 2012. By Heidi Turner.

Cleveland, OH: As anyone who has suffered from airbag injuries can tell you, having properly working side impact airbags and steering wheel airbags is vital to safety. People with defective airbags can suffer serious injury, both in cases when the airbag fails to deploy and in situations where the airbag deploys without reason. A recent airbag recall highlights the dangers of defective airbags.

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New Generation of "Advanced" Airbags—Better or Worse?

November 2, 2011. By Jane Mundy.

Detroit, MI: As vehicle manufacturers are adding "new and improved" airbags—including side airbags and curtain airbags—to their vehicles (the NHTSA gave automobile manufacturers until 2012 to provide advanced airbags), these airbags are also causing accidents. While some airbags do not deploy in a collision, others deploy without the vehicle being involved in an accident.

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GM Failed to Deliver on Warranty, Says Suit

September 23, 2011. By Brenda Craig.

Bloomfield Hills, MI: General Motors is under fire in a national class-action suit for allegedly failing to honor its so-called bumper-to-bumper warranty and replace defective spindle rods. A class-action suit filed against GM says defective spindle rods caused customers to replace the tires on the vehicles, and rendered potentially hundreds of thousands of 2007 and 2008 Chevy Impalas unsafe to drive.

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Chrysler Recalls Nearly a Quarter Million Trucks

July 15, 2011. By Gordon Gibb.

Detroit, MI: Various complaints have dogged Chrysler with regard to steering problems inherent with some of their trucks. This week, the manufacturer made it official and pulled the trigger on a voluntary recall of nearly quarter million Ram pickups over the potential for "loss of directional stability," according to Chrysler.

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Six Dead in Amtrak Collision

June 26, 2011. By Heidi Turner.

Lovelock, NV: Six people have died in a horrific train accident in Nevada. The train crash occurred when a tractor-trailer collided with an Amtrak train on Friday.

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Blue Bird Recalls 3900 School Buses

April 8, 2011. By Lucy Campbell.

Washington, DC: Blue Bird Body Co, a manufacturer of school buses, is recalling 3,919 certain model year 2004-2006 Vision Conventional style school buses manufactured from June 26, 2003.

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Four Injured in Springfield Car Accident

March 24, 2011. By Charles Benson.

Springfield, MO: Four people were injured and one man is in serious condition after a recent Springfield car accident involving two vehicles, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

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Honda Recalls 18,000 Civics

March 18, 2011. By Lucy Campbell.

Washington, DC: Honda is recalling 18,056 Honda Civic model year 2011 vehicles. To prevent fuel from leaking out of a vehicle's fuel tank into the evaporative emissions canister in the event of a roll-over incident, the fuel pump module is equipped with a roll over valve (ROV). Due to improper ultrasonic welding of the plastic case that houses the ROV within the fuel pump module, the case material may break or crack, which may cause the ROV to separate from the case and fail to function, thereby increasing the risk of fuel leakage in a roll-over incident.

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Thirteen People Dead in Bus Crash

March 12, 2011. By Heidi Turner.

New York, NY: At least thirteen people died in a bus crash when the bus they were traveling in rolled onto its side and was sliced in half by a support pole for a large sign. In addition to the thirteen killed in the bus accident, another eight were in critical condition. The bus crashed on March 12 on a busy highway in the Bronx.

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Missouri Accidents Blamed on Weather Forecast

March 4, 2011. By Heidi Turner.

St. Louis, MO: What could have been one of the most tragic Missouri car accidents resulted in 20 people being sent to hospitals in and around St. Louis at the end of February. In all, 31 cars were involved in the Missouri car crash, which could have had much worse consequences for drivers and passengers. Like many Missouri traffic accidents at this time of year, officials say weather was at least partly to blame.

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