In November 2004, Candice Anderson was driving her boyfriend, Gene Erickson to pick up his car. The couple was not wearing the seat belts, and air bags did not deploy when they got the accident, the car lost control and hit a tree. This incident killed Gene Erickson. After that, she was fined and charged with criminally negligent homicide. The fault was in the ignition switches. Company General Motors, the manufacture of car with faulty ignition switches knew about the defect. The General Motors: General Motors was America’s largest automaker.
In the 1970s, GM responded to rising gasoline prices with engines that ran on unleaded fuel, offered air bags for protection, introduced the first emission- reducing catalytic converter. The company became profitable once again by the end of 2009. The ignition switch defect, purpose: Due to faulty ignition switches, GM company recalls a large number of car about 80,000 on February 6,2014 to repair the engines, which have the issue: shut off while driving and preventing the air bag from inflating.
It causes a lot accident because of it, had paid the compensation to nearly 124 deaths. Therefore, the company continued to call nearly 30 million cars across the globe. The reason for the issue: The switch detent plunger was not designed to ease the mechanical resistance for the purpose of preventing the accident when the car on the rotation. Therefore, an unintended ignition took place and switch shut off happened. This causes a lot accident in the short time, and the number of death people increased.
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GM is in the trouble. The biggest problem in this case: the GM company did not tell anything about the defect or show to the government about the quality of the transportation safety. Therefore, no one knows it, except the company. It kept in the secret until a woman died because of the major crash that has taken place. After the accident, the community keep the eyes on it, the public attention came when a lawsuit has been charged filed by a family.
Bodies involves in investigation:
- General Motors- a automaker headquartered in Detroit, USA.
- National highway traffic safety (NHTSA)- a government body dedicated to study, analyze, investigate the vehicle
- India University Transportation research center.
Model of cars suspected:
- Chevy Cobalt
- Pontiac G5
- Saturn Ion
After recalling lots of cars, the families who lost their people in the accident have the meeting outside the US capitol and asked about the automobiles defects that has not been disclosed. It looks they are so angry, they need the reasons to explain for it, because the international doing such falsified business with the defective car. They lost their beloved ones because of it. The families work with the lawyer to the manufacturing department and company officials who have produced such defective switches to investigate about the accidents, which some got badly injuries and some have lost their lives.
