Ford will be recalling 128,000 2010-2011 model Fusions and Mercury Milans.
Apparently, the wheels could fall off the cars, causing car wrecks, injuries, or even deaths.
Federal regulators have said that bolts holding the wheels on can fracture, which causes a vibration. If the vibration is ignored, the wheels can separate from the car.
The recall is expected to begin around January 24, 2012.
Imagine taking your vehicle to the car wash as you wait to emerge from the dark, wet, but clean tunnel your Jeep Grand Cherokee suddenly accelerates out of control.
How did this happen? Where do you start to get justification for this life threatening and in many cases deadly accident?
This is what happened to many victims not only at car washes but at service stations as well.
In 2002, 665 Jeep complaints were reported to the NHTSA. They denied a request to reconsider causes of the acceleration problem blaming them on the operator of the Jeep.
In 2006, the Connecticut state attorney asked the NHTRA to reconsider Jeep acceleration cases after another deadly incident; the request was denied again.
Why does the NHTSA keep denying these cases? How hard is it to look at the facts given and reconsider the problem?
The driver of a bus that crashed in New York City, killing 15 people, should not have been behind the wheel.
The Associated Press reported that, because of a driving suspension and several traffic violations, the driver of the bus in the fatal wreck should not have been allowed a license. His driving privileges were suspended in 1995 after he ignored tickets for speeding and driving without a license.
Crain’s New York Business reports that the tragic bus wreck has prompted federal officials to call for a wider investigation into the regulation of the discount bus industry and to determine whether more could have been done to prevent the fatal crash of the World Wide Tours bus.
The revelations prompted Governor Andrew Cuomo to launch a state investigation into how the driver was able to hold a valid commercial driver’s license at the time of the crash.
The coach, owned by World Wide Travel, was taking gamblers home to Chinatown, Manhattan, from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. The vehicle, carrying 32 people, was sheared in half by a sign pole after overturning on the highway.
The driver told police at the scene that the coach was clipped by an 18-wheeler but investigators found no evidence backing his story. Passengers contradicted his account and told officers that the bus driver dozed off at the wheel several times before the bus careened out of control.
World Wide Travel has declined to comment but a spokesman for the tour industry said that the safety record for discount bus is the same as for traditional, more regulated bus companies.
