Study Shows Children No Safer in SUVs
January 8, 2006 08:23

Associated Press, LA Times: "Children are no safer riding in sport utility vehicles than in passenger cars, largely because the doubled risk of rollovers in SUVs cancels out the safety advantages of their greater size and weight, according to a study. Researchers said the findings dispel the bigger-equals-safer myth that has helped fuel the growing popularity of SUVs among families. SUV registrations climbed 250 percent in the United States between 1995 and 2002."

"The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to determine if a couple's failure to provide expert testimony on air bags doomed their lawsuit against General Motors for damages from a 1997 accident. The state Court of Appeals, in a 5-4 decision last year, upheld a Marion County judge's dismissal of a lawsuit filed in 2000 against GM by Hoyt and Hilda Forbes. The Forbeses claimed the air bag in their 1992 Oldsmobile did not deploy as GM had represented. Hilda Forbes was injured when her car collided with another vehicle in Marion County and the air bag did not inflate on impact. Circuit Judge R.I. Prichard III in 2003 dismissed the lawsuit after the plaintiffs concluded their case. He said the couple failed to prove that the air bag did not perform as it was supposed to. The Forbeses appealed. The Court of Appeals sided with Prichard."
Jack Elliott, Jr., Associated Press, Sun Herald, 1/9/06

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