National Legal and Policy Center – Evidence Mounts that GM Delayed Recall with Deadly Results
NHTSA has been asked to require GM to explain its deadly recall delay by Lance Cooper, the attorney involved in one of the lawsuits. NHTSA has not responded to the request, as reported by USA Today, which writes:
The federal safety agency officially has been asked to require General Motors to explain why it only now has recalled 619,122 U.S.-market 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt and similar 2007 Pontiac G5 cars to replace faulty ignition switches blamed for at least six deaths…
…”Testimony of GM engineers and documents produced in Melton v. General Motors et. al., show that the automaker actually knew about the defective ignition switch in these vehicles in 2004 before it began selling” the 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt, says the letter to NHTSA from Lance Cooper, the plantiff’s lawyer in the lawsuit…