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- Toyota Paid $10 Million To Settle 4 Self Acceleration Deaths
Lots of folks heard about the state trooper in California who was killed, with family members, when his 2009 Lexus Es ran out of control, killing Saylor, his wife, brother in law and daughter. What no one heard about is the secret settlement that Toyota...
- Toyota: "we Did Nothing Wrong But We'll Pay $32.4 Million More If The Us Stops Investigating What We Didn't Do"
Toyota has agreed to pay the US another $32,400,000 to shut down the US federal government's safety investigation of its self-acceleration problems and its failure to report the defect to US safety investigators timely. That's on top of the $16.4...
- Toyota's Problem And Why A Class Action May Not Work For You
The Toyota mess is, most certainly, a mess of royal proportions. It seems like a new "class action" lawsuit is being filed every couple of days. Reports are that there are at least 41 of them spread out across the country. But that may not be the best...
- A New Toyota Recall - Tacoma Trucks For Drive Shaft Fix
It seems like every day Toyota is recalling something else. Now it's the Tacoma Trucks. Toyota announced will recall 8,000 Tacoma pickups due to possible cracks in a common drive shaft component Read more here: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100212/RETAIL05/100219948/-1#ixzz0fXhZAY5B...
- Toyota Keeps Its Customers Longer Than Anyone Else
Quality counts. As 2006 came to a close, toyota scored another prize. Automotive News announced that Toyota leads the industry in keeping new vehicle buyer customers coming back to Toyota products, according to a study just released by JD Power and Associates....
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Toyota's Troubles Give Freedom to Minnesota Man in Vehicular Homicide Case
Just off the wirepress, from St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, a Minnesota man's vehicular homicide conviction has been set aside because he was driving a Toyota Camry and the safety doubts about the car were not known at the time his car accelerated in 2006, killing 3 people.
Koua Fong Lee had been sentenced to 8 years but had always said that the car did it on its own and he couldn't control it. Even the mother and grandmother of those who died, said they were happy that Lee would be set free. Lee's runaway Toyota ran into the rear of tan Oldsmobile sedan, killing the three occupants.
On Friday a Ramsey County judge vacated the conviction, saying that Lee had not had the benefit of any of the information about Toyota and its accelerator troubles that had since come to light. The county attorney has said that they will not pursue a new trial.
The family of the victims killed in the crash have since filed suit against Toyota.
Many Toyota observers aren't surprised that Lee was released. Perhaps the only surprise is that the county wisely decided that with all the evidence that has come out, it would be a waste of effort to try to convict the man now.
Sometimes justice takes a while to happen, but it always happens sooner or later. For Lee, that came today. If you've got a lemon Toyota, don't take a chance. Get a Burdge attorney. Getting rid of lemon cars and lemon trucks is what we do. Since 1978.
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Subscribe in a reader- Toyota Paid $10 Million To Settle 4 Self Acceleration Deaths
Lots of folks heard about the state trooper in California who was killed, with family members, when his 2009 Lexus Es ran out of control, killing Saylor, his wife, brother in law and daughter. What no one heard about is the secret settlement that Toyota...
- Toyota: "we Did Nothing Wrong But We'll Pay $32.4 Million More If The Us Stops Investigating What We Didn't Do"
Toyota has agreed to pay the US another $32,400,000 to shut down the US federal government's safety investigation of its self-acceleration problems and its failure to report the defect to US safety investigators timely. That's on top of the $16.4...
- Toyota's Problem And Why A Class Action May Not Work For You
The Toyota mess is, most certainly, a mess of royal proportions. It seems like a new "class action" lawsuit is being filed every couple of days. Reports are that there are at least 41 of them spread out across the country. But that may not be the best...
- A New Toyota Recall - Tacoma Trucks For Drive Shaft Fix
It seems like every day Toyota is recalling something else. Now it's the Tacoma Trucks. Toyota announced will recall 8,000 Tacoma pickups due to possible cracks in a common drive shaft component Read more here: http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100212/RETAIL05/100219948/-1#ixzz0fXhZAY5B...
- Toyota Keeps Its Customers Longer Than Anyone Else
Quality counts. As 2006 came to a close, toyota scored another prize. Automotive News announced that Toyota leads the industry in keeping new vehicle buyer customers coming back to Toyota products, according to a study just released by JD Power and Associates....