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Seat Belt Failure:
From time to time, defective seatbelts do not restrain the vehicle occupant in a car wreck, causing personal injury and in some cases a wrongful death. As mentioned in the product liability section of our Florida personal injury website, the manufacturer is responsible for this defective seatbelt. If you or a loved one has been injured due to the negligence of a manufacturer rolling out a defective seatbelt, contact the personal injury lawyers at the Garfinkel Trial Group to discuss your defective seatbelt claim. Please call us toll free or fill out our contact form. We are here to help. Seatbelt Failure News: Ford to Pay $6.5 Million In Seat-Belt Failure Suit The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that Ford Motor Co. must pay more than $6.5 million to the family of a young man who suffered permanent brain damage because of an allegedly defective seat belt in his Ford Ranger pickup truck. Ricky Johnson, then 19, was injured in June 1997 when his truck ran off the road and plowed into a creek bottom near Tecumseh, OK. Johnson's parents charged that his injuries were caused by the failure of his seat belt. The suit alleges that a sharp edge on the seat belt latch plate cut into the seat belt, causing it fail and permitted Johnson's head to slam into the vehicle during the crash. Ford charged that Johnson's injury were caused by the violent movement of the vehicle during the crash, not by the seat belt failure. "This is an unfortunate ruling, not based on facts," Ford said in a prepared statement. "The driver fell asleep at the wheel, left the road and eventually became airborne for more than 70 feet. There is no evidence that he hit his head at any time during the accident." In its ruling, the Oklahoma court upheld an earlier jury verdict that awarded Johnson $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. With interest added to the original award, Ford must now pay Johnson and his family more than $6.5 million, one of his attorneys said. Ford's damages may well exceed the $6.5 million. The company has been struggling to recover from falling vehicle sales brought on, at least in part, by a rash of safety-related problems in recent years. If you or a loved one have been injured due to seatbelt failure, contact us to review your seatbelt injury claim.
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Seatbelt laws have been passed though out the United States including Florida requiring passengers to wear safety belts (seat belts) while driving a motor vehicle. Because of this, it is the seat belt manufacturers’ responsibility to thoroughly test seatbelts in crash worthiness testing to ensure the safety of passengers to offer the highest level of occupant safety in auto accidents, SUV rollovers as well as single car crashes.