firsttruck
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--------------------------it would be quit difficult to do this to a Cybertruck
Safe to assume no exoskeleton here.
Voncile Hill and her husband Melvin Hill were killed when their 2002 Ford Super Duty F-250 pickup flipped over from a blown tire in 2014
Jim Butler Jr., the attorney who won the verdict said "They might as well have been in a convertible,"
Ford hit with $1.7 billion verdict for F-series pickup roof collapse that killed couple
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business
August 22, 2022
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/22/business/ford-1-7-billion-dollar-verdict/index.html
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The jury appeared to endorse the plaintiff's arguments that Ford knew of the problem years before the fatal crash, acted slowly to correct it and that other deaths have resulted from the same design flaw.
Evidence presented in the case showed that the F-250 pickups made in the 17 model years prior to 2017 (2000 - 2016) all pose a risk to drivers and passengers in cases of a rollover, said Jim Butler Jr., the attorney who won the verdict. He said 5.2 million trucks have been built with the same faulty roof.
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The punitive damages were awarded because Ford knew well in advance of the 2014 crash that it had a problem with the roof, Butler said. He said Ford's engineers had already designed a safer roof, but the automaker did not move immediately to install it on the trucks. "Long before the Hills were killed, Ford was on notice from their own engineers, own crash tests and dozens of accidents that people were being killed, and it did nothing," Butler said.
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And it wasn't a change in the NHTSA standard, but potential pickup buyers doing research on the vehicle's safety record that finally prompted Ford to put a stronger roof on both the F-150 and F-250, according to Butler. Butler said evidence in the case clearly showed that the Hills would have survived the crash if the roof of the cab had not collapsed on them.
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