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GM Safety Recalls May Take Another Leap
The Detroit News reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has commenced an investigation into tailgate support cable breakage on the 1998 to 2004 Sonoma and S10 pickups. The NHTSA, per the Detroit News, has received 42 reports of tailgate collapse involving these pickups, five with injury.
If the NHTSA forces General Motors to recall these Sonoma and S10 pickups in December, GM's safety recall total for 2004 will jump by 1.42 million. The current recall total for 2004 exceeds 9 million. (See "General Motors' Recalls Remain Gargantuan in First Half of 2004," July 2004, "General Motors Safety Recalls Keep Rolling On," August 2004, "GM Safety Recalls Take a Leap," November 2004, and "General Motors Safety Recalls March On: Saturn Ions Add to Total," November 2004.)
In March of this year, the same problem prompted the NHTSA to prod GM to recall 3.66 million 2000 to 2004 Chevrolet Silverados, 2000 to 2004 GMC Sierras, 2002 to 2004 Chevrolet Avalanches, and 2002 to 2004 Cadillac Escalade EXTs. (See "Prompted by a Growing Number of Injuries and an Intensified U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Investigation, General Motors Recalls 4 Million Pickups," March 2004.)
Separately, the Associated Press reports the death of a 19-year-old who had fallen from the tailgate of a 2000 Chevrolet pickup subject to the March 2004 safety recall. The accident occurred in May, but the attorney for the victim's family stated that neither the victim nor the victim's employer, who owned the pickup, had received notice of its recall.1
1 "Nearly 1 in 3 Recall Vehicles Not Repaired," the Associated Press, November 30, 2004, available at Yahoo! News
Source for NHTSA's investigative action: "GM May Add 1.42 Million Vehicles to Tailgate Recall," Rip Watson, Bloomberg News, November 30, 2004, at http://www.detnews.com/2004/autosinsider/0411/30/C02-19186.htm
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