If she were driving a vw or mini cooper, would they sue because the car crumpled like a flattened soda can? What about the driver of the truck? I hope that someday they put a cap on lawsuits or make it a set amount for damages. If not, we will continue to put American businesses out of business like we have done to Doctors and keep bringing in the imports, cause we can’t sue them when they’re not on our soil.
saftey in driving, but she was hit by – A TRUCK carrying GRAVEL. so what about the law of physics that the amount of energy going forward has to go somewhere. in this case it pushed the lady over the embankment – how long was the downhill of the embankment? so another factor of GRAVITY playing into this picture. so where does a person able to sue the automaker? where does it prove that if the seatback stayed she would still be alive? too many if’s!! no conclusive proof that the manufacturer is at fault. i hope the appeal the settlement. we as individuals, need to really assess who is at fault for the accident – in this case, the driver of the truck and his company.
As Ed & Wud stated, she was hit by a gravel truck. She was also 76 years old. Talk about a bunch of doofuses on the jury!! Most juries are pretty good, but they robbed some village of 12 idiots.
I heard just this morning on my car radio coming to work that in 2007 American manufacturers generally spent more money defending lawsuits than they did on research and development. No wonder we’re lagging behind the rest of the world in industrial productivity.
The problem is not the Ford Truck, it’s the fact that some 74 year old women was driving. Plus, she’s dead now so what is she going to do with the the money.
Another case to support professional jurors. At 76 years old osteoporosis would have been an issue and the initial impact would have caused the spinal injury. We don’t know much about the causal relationship unfortunately. This was a 14 year old piece of Ford crap and would have had to meet the federal safety standards for that model year. We also don’t know how much this woman weighed which could be another factor in her injury. Agree with all that the truck driver and owner have 100% liability. I continue to be nauseated by our legal system that doles out big verdicts to the survivors. Grandma’s dead but we get to buy new cars and take a vacation. What’s wrong with this picture?
What’s really scary is that there wasn’t ONE person on the jury with common sense?!! Do all the people on that jury drive? God help you if you drive on those same roads with those geniuses.
The technology exists to make every vehicle perfectly safe, but no one could afford to buy one. Everything in this world is a tradeoff to one degree or another. This outcome is insane — Neither Ford nor any other manufacture should be held to such an impossible standard –that is full protection of driver of car that is hit by a fully loaded gravel truck. Another example of jury insanity.
Jurors are like sheep. After voire dire, it’s a miracle anyone with a hair of common sense and objectivitiy remains. The personal injury attorneys are the puppeteers behind this charade we call a “trial by a jury of your peers”. We all know that will never happen. Most bleeding hearts, when faced with a sob story painted by some slimebag PI attorney, will feel compelled to award money. If this woman’s family were concerned about her safety she wouldn’t have been driving a 14 year of cheapo Ford.
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If she were driving a vw or mini cooper, would they sue because the car crumpled like a flattened soda can? What about the driver of the truck? I hope that someday they put a cap on lawsuits or make it a set amount for damages. If not, we will continue to put American businesses out of business like we have done to Doctors and keep bringing in the imports, cause we can’t sue them when they’re not on our soil.
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saftey in driving, but she was hit by – A TRUCK carrying GRAVEL. so what about the law of physics that the amount of energy going forward has to go somewhere. in this case it pushed the lady over the embankment – how long was the downhill of the embankment? so another factor of GRAVITY playing into this picture. so where does a person able to sue the automaker? where does it prove that if the seatback stayed she would still be alive? too many if’s!! no conclusive proof that the manufacturer is at fault. i hope the appeal the settlement. we as individuals, need to really assess who is at fault for the accident – in this case, the driver of the truck and his company.
As Ed & Wud stated, she was hit by a gravel truck. She was also 76 years old. Talk about a bunch of doofuses on the jury!! Most juries are pretty good, but they robbed some village of 12 idiots.
I heard just this morning on my car radio coming to work that in 2007 American manufacturers generally spent more money defending lawsuits than they did on research and development. No wonder we’re lagging behind the rest of the world in industrial productivity.
The problem is not the Ford Truck, it’s the fact that some 74 year old women was driving. Plus, she’s dead now so what is she going to do with the the money.
Another case to support professional jurors. At 76 years old osteoporosis would have been an issue and the initial impact would have caused the spinal injury. We don’t know much about the causal relationship unfortunately. This was a 14 year old piece of Ford crap and would have had to meet the federal safety standards for that model year. We also don’t know how much this woman weighed which could be another factor in her injury. Agree with all that the truck driver and owner have 100% liability. I continue to be nauseated by our legal system that doles out big verdicts to the survivors. Grandma’s dead but we get to buy new cars and take a vacation. What’s wrong with this picture?
What’s really scary is that there wasn’t ONE person on the jury with common sense?!! Do all the people on that jury drive? God help you if you drive on those same roads with those geniuses.
This is why I buy foreign made cars! At least the price of the car doesn’t have a factor involving unions and juror stupidity.
The technology exists to make every vehicle perfectly safe, but no one could afford to buy one. Everything in this world is a tradeoff to one degree or another. This outcome is insane — Neither Ford nor any other manufacture should be held to such an impossible standard –that is full protection of driver of car that is hit by a fully loaded gravel truck. Another example of jury insanity.
Jurors are like sheep. After voire dire, it’s a miracle anyone with a hair of common sense and objectivitiy remains. The personal injury attorneys are the puppeteers behind this charade we call a “trial by a jury of your peers”. We all know that will never happen. Most bleeding hearts, when faced with a sob story painted by some slimebag PI attorney, will feel compelled to award money. If this woman’s family were concerned about her safety she wouldn’t have been driving a 14 year of cheapo Ford.