In auto defect news, the surviving wife and children of a Utah State University instructor killed in a fatal rollover accident in Utah have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturer of the tires. The suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court, seeks unspecified money damages and alleges a tire on the school van were defective, and that Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. knew the tire design was defective, but failed to fix the problem.
The fatal crash that killed nine people occurred on September 26, 2005. Evan Parker, an instructor at Utah State University, was driving 10 agricultural students back to Logan from a field trip when one of the tires blew out, causing the van to roll four times off of Interstate 84. Six people died at the scene of the crash and three died later in hospitals. Only two people survived. A suit against DaimlerChrysler Corp, the manufacturer of the 1994 Dodge Ram 3500 van, was settled in 2008.
Source: LocalNews8
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