Lawsuit Against Ford Motor Company

As the speeding car fed down the highway, 22-year veteran George Brentar of the Euclid police force died on Wednesday evening when his car crashed in a pole and caught on fire on an etrance ramp to Interstate 90. The road was very slippery at the time, so investigators were assuming that the crash was from the slippery road. Investigators are also stating that Brentar lost control of his car and skidded off the road.

The Ford Crown Victoria Lawsuit was flied 2 year later on October 6 in Cuyahoga County Court in Ohio by Brad Lakin and Charles Chapman of LakinChapmen, LLC. The lawsuit states that Ford is being held responsibly for putting the gas tank in the rear crush zone of the police car. It also says that Ford is being held negligent in failing to place the CVPI with an Electronic Stability Control (ESC) system.

The ESC is used to allow systems to automatically brake and to control the steering wheels under all of the driving conditions such as rain, sleet, snow, and the occational hail. Back in the late 1900's, it was used to prevent the wheel from locking up and the car from skidding.

Personally, i think that Ford is, as a matter of fact, in fault here because Lakin said that there has been over 50 crashes containing the CVPI . But also, in my opinion, the Police department should have looked into Ford's cars instead of just "assuming" that they were police work material. If there were this many crashes, Ford should have known to be more careful on how they built there cars. But in lack of negligence, Ford had no intentions to put the ESC or the CVPI in any cars, escpecially in the police cars. No fire and no burns would have happened if Ford would have not located the CVPI in the rear crush zone.Documentations were filed against Ford after these accomidations occured.

An agreement was signed by Ford stating that Ford would make the standarized ESC's by the end of 2009. Currently, Ford has approximately 4 million automobiles aroudn the world with the standarized ESC inside them.

To accomidate the crash, Lakin and Chapman won the case with $43 million dollar verdict against ford in 2005 for the same cause, only it was with an elderly coupe whose Lincoln Town Car bursted into flames after being rear ended in the back.