Chrysler's Ticking Time Bombs
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As we posted earlier this week, Chrysler has emerged from bankruptcy freed from responsibility for all deaths and catastrophic injuries caused by their defective cars, vans and trucks. This means that many families who own Chrysler products may be driving around in vehicles that have dangerous defects that they don't even know about. If catastrophy occurs as a result of those defects, these families will have no means of recovering for their losses. With the backing of the Obama administration, Chrysler has been given immunity from liability. Hence, these families are driving around on ticking time bombs.
It is estimated that there are 40 million Chrysler and GM vehicles on the road today. GM is also in bankruptcy and seeks the same legal loophole. Historical data compiled from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration shows that 47% of all death and injury claims filed against auto manufacturers involve Chrysler and GM cars. In the last 5 years, 3,497 casualities were connected to problems with Chrysler cars and 15,284 connected to problems with GM cars.
On June 9, 2009, letters were sent to Chrysler and GM by the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Senators Jay Rockefeller (D/Virginia) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R/Texas), signed by 18 members of the 26-member committee, imploring the "new" Chrysler and GM to not abandon their legal obligation to customers injured or killed by one of their defective products. "The rights and responsibilities Chrysler [and GM] owe to its customers do not end with an arbitrary date."
We enlist all that are out there to write, phone, email, or tweet your congressman or senator to insist that GM and Chrysler accept responsibility for defective products that they sell, and remain accountable to those injured or killed thereby. This is not China!