Less than ten minutes of being on I-75 South, a mile long car crash occurred. In total there were three deaths and many injured. The family I knew had three children in the car with them, Hannah Greenwood, 10, Aiden Hicks, 7, and Gabrielle Greenwood, 9, and they were all unconscious that morning. Two of those deaths were from the family I knew. Aiden died from impact of a pick-up truck slamming into the side of the car and Gabrielle who passed from head injuries.
In order to gain a larger market share, Ford designed, manufactured and the vehicle was shipped in order to be the road in a very short time frame. The first few years of sales were good, but in May 1972, Lily Gray was traveling with her thirteen year-old passenger, Richard Grimshaw when the car suddenly stalled and was rear-ended by another vehicle traveling approximately 32 miles per hour. The impact killed Lily Gray (after succumbing to congestive heart failure) and permanently disfigured thirteen year-old Richard Grimshaw with burns to his face and body (Leggett, 1999, para. 7). Grimshaw and Gray’s heirs sued Ford motor company based on theories of negligence and strict liability, alleging that the defendants knew from pre-manufacturing crash tests regarding the design flaws with the fuel system (Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company, 1981).
Hairston v. Alexander Tank and Equipment Co. 311 S.E.2d 559 (N.C. 1984) FACT -Plaintiff: Bettye Hairston (John Hairston’s wife) -Defendant: Haygood Lincoln-Mercury. Inc (Haygood) and Alexander Tank and Equipment Co. -After John Hairston purchased a new car from Haygood, the left rear wheel of his car came off. Since there were no places to park his car, he stopped his car in the far right lane. However, the truck crashed Hairston’s car and he was killed because he was standing between his car and van. The plaintiff claims that the wheel came off the vehicle because the lug nuts had not been tightened on the wheel studs.
In 1966, he suffers severe burns in Indy Car Practice. In 1972, he was set on fire when a broken hose sprayed over 7.5 liters of fuel onto his head. In 1981 he sustains serious arm injury in Indy car race. In 1990, he broke his left knee, dislocated his left tibia, crushed his left heel, and dislocated his right heel after another brake failure. After the 1990 accident, many assumed the severity of Foyt’s injuries would encourage the then 55-year-old driver toward retirement,
Derek Lamonds Wylie, 40, of Rock Hill has been charged with driving under the influence, police say. A woman said she was in the McDonald's drive-thru on Cherry Road near Winthrop University when a Toyota behind her hit her car from behind, according to a Rock Hill police report. Officers detected a strong smell of alcohol on the driver, who was identified as Wylie, the report states. His words were slurred, and while searching for paperwork, he lost his balance several times, police say. Wylie told officers he had had three beers at his home and was hungry, so he went to McDonald's, the report states.
The causes of the excessive fuel consumption and stalling would later be learned were caused by a heavy carburetor float. In May of 1972 the car was only 6 months old when Mrs. Gray set out to meet up with her husband in Barstow. Along for the ride was 13-year-old Richard Grimshaw. On the way, Mrs. Gray stopped for gasoline and proceeded on her way at 60-65 milers per hour. As she was approaching her exit, Mrs. Gray moved from the left lane to the middle lane.
For example, the number of people in five seated car, the amount of alcohol consumed, party that students attended before the accident, and the students actions in the car. When asked who’s to blame the parents points fingers at everyone, but do we know who to blame? When the question came whom to blame? The parents of the victims blamed on Tyson Baxter, a driver of vehicle at the time of incident. Behind the wheel of his Chevrolet Blazer, he was over the legal limit of alcohol consumption.
“Going off site inevitably made executives anxious”. Adam Gryglak, the chief diesel engineer for Ford delivered an all new ford engine that was classified as an “impossible task”. Through strategic planning, team corporation, group performance and a change in culture and lifestyle, Adam Gryglak was able to deliver an assignment that made executives “anxious” and in previous years “tended to look unkindly on heterodoxy”. The project nicknamed “Scorpion” was a success which was contributed by a degree of factors, the underlying being trust. Without the trust of the hierarchy of Ford managers the project wouldn’t have been delivered or achieved in the manner it was.
Jessica: (Sobbing) Don’t you remember? Coming home on the way from the hospital? A car with drunk teenagers crashed the car you your dad and sister were in. Kate: I remember! Where are they?
In the United States of America approximately 32,000 people die each year from speeding in an automobile. two of my friends past away on January 4, they were victims of reckless driver, which blew red light going 100 MPH on Ford Rd and telegraph. When I went to the funeral it broke my heart seeing his mom crying, and after they put his casket in the grave she tried to threw herself in it, other people had to hold her back. I felt the pain because he was one of my close friends and my team captain; it wasn’t easy for me to believe that he is gone. But if the guy who hit them didn’t have the bad habit of speeding they would have never died as two young men.