Toyota stuck accelerator defect didn’t spur recall soon enough for victims
For decades, millions of Americans have trusted Japanese automaker Toyota. They’ve bought Toyota’s cars and have made Toyota rich. And how has Toyota repaid them? With treachery. How so? Because Toyota knew that its cars had stuck accelerator defects in 2009, and it didn’t recall them until forced to do so by the U.S. government in 2010.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said as much this week when he revealed that it took considerable pressure from the government before Toyota would recall millions of cars in order to fix their gas pedals.
Because Toyota dragged its corporate feet, many Americans have died in horrific car crash accidents, when their vehicle suddenly sped up and they couldn’t slow it down. Such victims’ survivors now face a life of anguish, but they’re making their voices heard by launching lawsuits against Toyota for its manufacturing negligence.
Such lawsuits should seek punitive damages as well as compensatory damages, since Toyota should be punished for its outrageous indifference to public safety. The manufacturer seemed willing to pay victims and survivors settlements as part of the price of doing business. Fortunately, that wasn’t enough for the federal government, whose intervention led to the enormous recall of 2.3 million vehicles in America to fix accelerator pedals which might stick.
If you or a loved one has been injured due to a defective Toyota product, let a defective product lawyer or car accident lawyer with USALegalHelpCenter.com go to work for you. He or she will fight for your rights to fitting and fair financial compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
Toyota sent a message to American consumers with its early disregard of its stuck gas pedal crisis. Now send a message to Toyota that such callous indifference to public safety will not be tolerated in the U.S. legal system.
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As the holiday season looms, drunk drivers lurk. They can come from anywhere — a home, a bar, an office, a holiday party — and can strike just as unexpectedly, killing and maiming innocent Americans. And it’s all because they choose to drink and drive — a willful act of horrendous negligence which causes about 30 per cent of all USA traffic fatalities per year.
Last week’s national summit on distracted driving brought much needed attention to a malady that’s killing and maiming thousands of Americans. It seems cell phone calling and texting along with web surfing is an addiction, and people can’t seem to stop doing it, even when engaged in the most dangerous thing they do each day: driving.
Men have always been guilty of enormous wrongs as drunk drivers. No news there. But women are narrowing the gap rapidly, and that’s news — big news.
State by state, Americans are standing up to resist today’s avalanche of driver distractions, largely spurred by the cell phone industry. And now the federal government is trying to help, too.
Fatal traffic accidents involving a car, auto, truck, bus, motorcycle or other vehicles are declining in America. That’s the good news. The bad news is that at least 37,000 Americans still die on the USA’s roads and highways each year, and almost all of them die due to persistent and, in some ways, increasing driver errors.
If terrorists were killing many thousands of Americans, injuring far more and causing billions of dollars in damages each year, something would be done about it. Sadly, homegrown “terrorists” are doing just that, and not enough is being done about it. These are the killers and destroyers also known as drunk drivers.
Almost daily, word spreads that more innocent Americans have been harmed by food poisoning. At first it’s news, then the hubbub subsides as the Food and Drug Administration or other watchdogs trace the source and fix the glitch. Yet victims continue to suffer quietly, and others keep joining their ranks.