Tribunal to decide whether Ford lied about police cars
A jury of the first category Action Lawsuit files on the safety of cruisers Ford Crown Victoria Police has decided that cars are safe, but a judge must now decide whether vehicle manufacturers violates state fraud consumer.Class action complaints are pending in at least 12 countries on the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, a specially designed for police cruiser that for the majority of police cars on U.S. roads.
Since 1983, at least 15 officers from Germany, died in the fiery crash of their Crown Victoria was rear-ended - including one in Texas during the last month. FORD MOTOR CO. takes into account the officers reflect death “at risk rather as a design error.
Friday, the jury agreed, the car was safe, fraud to a request for dismissal in 2002 by the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office and near the downtown Police Department.
It is a terrible thing that someone has to die, but their cars are no more dangerous than other Crown Victoria on the road now, Judy Burgess, one of the jurors, said the Belleville News-Democrat.
Thus, 12 people have agreed that the Number One police vehicle in the USA is certainly very important and significant to Ford, the company said attorney Jim Feeney.
The law requires that judges, as a general rule, has three: Ford, if misleading trade practices, against Illinois consumer fraud laws, and wrongly, the company enriched by fraud. Feeney said he expected a ruling about two weeks.
No failures have been fatal in Illinois, but the divisions of Ford accused of undisclosed allegations of problems with the police car to the authorities, in order to compel the company to Retrofit cruiser with safety equipment.
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