Ford Pinto Fire Deaths, Ppt Ford Pinto Case Powerpoint Presentation Free Download Id 1545932

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Ford gt 2020 wallpaper. Misch ford vice president in charge of the environmental and safety engineering staff said these statistics i establish that the ford pinto is involved in fewer fireassociated. Additional misunderstanding surrounds the actual number of fire related deaths related to the fuel system design wild and unsupported claims asserted in pinto madness and elsewhere31 the facts of the two most significant pinto related legal cases grimshaw vs ford motor company and state of indiana vs ford motor company the applicable. On june 9 1978 ford motor company agreed to recall 15 million ford pinto and 30000 mercury bobcat sedan and hatchback models for fuel tank design defects which made the vehicles susceptible to fire in the event of a moderate speed rear end collision.

Ford engineers considered a number of solutions to the fuel tank problem including lining the fuel tank with a nylon bladder at a cost of 525 to 800 per vehicle adding structural protection in the rear of the car at a cost of 420 per vehicle and placing a plastic baffle between the fuel tank and the differential housing at a cost of 235 per vehicle. For instance dowies conservative estimate of 500 deaths 197718 was accepted while nhtsas report that it could document only 27 pinto fire related deaths nhtsa c7 38. Between 1971 and 1978 the pinto was responsible for a number of fire related deaths.

The action was the result of investigations. A transmission problem that also caused 27 pinto deaths and 180 on other ford products clarke 1988 never became a social problem. Ford pinto fuel fed fires.

Regarding pinto litigation mr. On august 10 1978 three teenage girls die after their 1973 ford pinto is rammed from behind by a van and bursts into flames on an indiana highway. The fatal crash was one of a series of pinto.

Ford puts the figure at 23. Martin said that the publicity surrounding the deaths last august in elkhart ind of three young women riding in a pinto that was hit from the rear and burst into. Its critics say the figure is closer to 500.