Victims Lose Again to GM – First Safety Then Justice
April, 2015
The public needs to keep its eye on members of the Judicial branch as much as members of the Executive and Legislative branches of government.
Lou
April, 2015
The public needs to keep its eye on members of the Judicial branch as much as members of the Executive and Legislative branches of government.
Lou
April, 2015
Think about the losses of the promising lives of these nurses — and the lives they would have gone on to save. See
April, 2015
International Business Times reports in a good article: “The U.S. auto safety regulator would get power to unilaterally demand automakers stop selling vehicles it says have safety related defects under the White House’s multiyear transportation funding bill that went to Congress this week. But the move to reform the way car safety is regulated will likely face stiff opposition from manufacturers who succeeded in weakening legislative efforts in 2010 that would have bolstered federal oversight and increased noncompliance penalties….”““The fine is too small for these multinational corporations,” said Claybrook. “We don’t think there should be a cap.”
Attempts to lift the cap on penalties were struck down in 2010 after aggressive lobbying by the automakers, dealers and trade groups, who spent more than $40 million that year on congressional lobbying. The bill to increase penalties against automakers and to boost safety standards for automotive electronics was watered down after it passed Congress. The industry spent $40.1 million in lobbying efforts last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, down from its all-time high of $58 million in 2007.” See
Compare the $40.1 million spent by the auto industry last year on lobbying with the $9.1 million value that DOT policy guidance places on just one “statistical life” (copy attached).
Compare the $40.1 million the auto industry may spend on lobbying in each of the next 6 years (~$240 million) with the estimated 192,000 crash deaths expected over the next 6 years. At $9.1 million per life the expected costs are $1.7 trillion.
Lobbyists are a good deal for the auto industry. A bad deal for the American people.
A good bet is that the auto industry lobbyists will win — again.
April, 2015
More information see:http://www.autosafety.org/walden-v-chrysler-trialhttp://www.autosafety.org/jeep-grand-cherokee-fires-homepage
April, 2015
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Clarence Ditlow, CAS Executive Director said:
“People are dying and Chrysler is stalling. This is the recall Chrysler never wanted to do and now refuses to do as required by law. NHTSA should impose the maximum possible civil fine under the law. The Justice Department should prosecute Chrysler and its responsible executives for criminal homicide for any deaths due to the delay in carrying out this recall. “
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/cs/jaxrs/download/doc/UCM476309/RCORRD-13V252-0198.pdf
April, 2015
Houck knows firsthand about the dangers of recalled cars that don’t fall into that do not drive category. Both of her daughters were killed in a crash directly related to an open recall in their rented Chrysler PT Cruiser.
Like dealers, the bill allows a rental car company to rent you a recalled vehicle as long as they tell you about it.” See
Automotive News reports “Jim Click says he’s “all in” for Jeb Bush in 2016.
The co-managing partner of Southern California’s Tuttle-Click Automotive Group says he already has raised “a substantial” six-figure sum for Right to Rise, a super PAC expected to back the former Florida governor’s presumed candidacy for the White House in 2016.
And Click says he’s just getting started.
“I’d like to raise him a million dollars,” Click told Automotive News. “I’d like to raise as much as possible.”
See which political party dealers give most to
March, 2015
And as previously reported see https://www.careforcrashvictims.com/blog-driven.php
It takes more than a village, and more than tragedies, to make progress in safety.
As these mothers have shown: it also takes love, work, and persistence.
Lou