the accident was prolly the ladies fault also....:nonono:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/03/ford.rollover.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/03/ford.rollover.ap/index.html
ford loses 369 MILLION $ lawsuit
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What - you mean winning a ridiculous amount of money for being a bad driver in a car you KNOW will roll over? :nonono:
Look at the big smile on her lawyer's face. Someone just took his calculator and figuered out what 40% of $396M was!
She wants them to fix design problems on a generation of car that is not produced? :rollseyes
She wants them to fix design problems on a generation of car that is not produced? :rollseyes
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No argument there...
OK I want to know how fast she had to be going to roll 4 1/2 times. Cause she had to have been flying.
But I would of rather of passed on the $369 million just to have my legs working again.
sohowcome
Captain Obvious
Well that wasn't their first loss, Ford paid me for their vehicle defect, of course I can't say how much
sohowcome
Captain Obvious
I rolled 8-9 times and was going 55-60 mph but I went down a ravine
and so you still have a 91' sho and a 95' mercury marquis...?
If you swerve at high speeds, in a truck, you will roll. Blazers do the same thing. There is a reason the tires on the explorer were rated at 85 mph, IT'S NOT A CAR, IT'S A TRUCK!
sohowcome
Captain Obvious
It wasnt much
ahhh - Well, ok - no offense, I thought maybe you'd say you spent it on a downpayment for a home, or invested it, or whatever...
What design flaws?Its an SUV for christs sake!
Maybe soccer moms need to stop buying SUV's.Or maybe..they should flip the visor down (or open a freakin drivers manual)..and read the readily available warning/disclaimer telling them that the vehicle WILL roll if they make abrupt maneuvers,like the one she obviously pulled.SUV's just arent good in any kind of emergency avoidance situation (unless you are one HELL of a driver).Kinda makes you wonder why SO many mothers buy these things because they are "bigger and safer" than a a full size sedan.
I feel bad for her being paralized..but this is what ignorance costs people.Kind of reminds me of how many rich kids in my area buy liter-bikes and then crash them 2 days later.People just dont know what they are doing/getting into..nor do they know the limitations/capabilties of their vehicles.
Like the wheelbase on an Explorer is THAT much different than any other full size SUV out there.I have a feeling Ford is gonna win this case when they apeal.
Maybe soccer moms need to stop buying SUV's.Or maybe..they should flip the visor down (or open a freakin drivers manual)..and read the readily available warning/disclaimer telling them that the vehicle WILL roll if they make abrupt maneuvers,like the one she obviously pulled.SUV's just arent good in any kind of emergency avoidance situation (unless you are one HELL of a driver).Kinda makes you wonder why SO many mothers buy these things because they are "bigger and safer" than a a full size sedan.
I feel bad for her being paralized..but this is what ignorance costs people.Kind of reminds me of how many rich kids in my area buy liter-bikes and then crash them 2 days later.People just dont know what they are doing/getting into..nor do they know the limitations/capabilties of their vehicles.
Like the wheelbase on an Explorer is THAT much different than any other full size SUV out there.I have a feeling Ford is gonna win this case when they apeal.
All vehicles with high centers of gravity will roll over if they try to turn sharply at too high a speed. Its not a design flaw, its physics.
Its really amazing how stupid and incompetent people are, there's so little common sense out there that eventually we're going to have to have special classes of licenses for these types of vehicles because idiots keep driving these trucks like they were civics.
Its really amazing how stupid and incompetent people are, there's so little common sense out there that eventually we're going to have to have special classes of licenses for these types of vehicles because idiots keep driving these trucks like they were civics.
yep yep.
It's total bullshi., jury trial's when it come's to a civial trial should be a thing of the past. Everyone on the jury is thinking boy if that ever happened to me I sure would want 365 big one's. The greed facter and the media alway's puttin down big biz, mean's a large company can never get a fair trial and these crazy jury awarded settlement's will continue.
At the appeals court it'll be reduced to thousands or sent back for some technicality or thrown out. Because of the Explorers good safety record in tests conducted according fed's standards most "jury" awarded sums are considered flawed by the appeals courts. Its like some have commented here that if a vehicle is considered safe under acceptable standards the operator is sometimes assumed to have done something wrong even if they hadn't. But such is life!!
ehhh, she might keep the 122 million in punitive damages or so...
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