Ford Found Negligent in Air Bag Death

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3381545,00.html



FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A jury found Ford
Motor Co. negligent and awarded $3.3 million to
the 7-year-old son of a woman killed when the air
bag of her Ford Taurus deployed in a low-speed
accident.

Mayling Semidey, 29, a single mother, hit a
concrete retaining wall at about 9 mph in 2000.
The air bag went off and caused fatal chest
injuries.

The civil jury found the air bag system of her
1996 Taurus to be defective.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
has investigated the risk of air bags to
small-statured women and children who are close
to the air bags when they deploy. But Semidey
was 5-foot-9 and was wearing a seat belt.

[PaDUer]

1. Plus, all the rollovers

with their explorers..
Does anyone know what's going on with Ford company?

[Antilope]

2. Ford Should Have Put Air Bags in Pintos....

In a crash, it would blow the fires out. :o

[R Hickey]

3. F-O-R-D

Fix
Or
Repair
Daily

[WeirdSceneGoldmine]

4. Found On Road Dead

Fuc&ed on Race Day

Seriously tho, the sensors on some vehicles are not made from materials that withstand time or weather well. The Sodium Aside in the bags is stable enough but all it takes is an unwarrented voltage from a sensor that has deterioated or weathered beyond spec.