USA TODAY: Federal safety officials knew as early as 2007 about a potentially fatal problem with General Motors ignition switches, but didn’t demand a recall.
Now, a safety activist who’s former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking for a probe of NHTSA, which she said “failed to carry out the law” when it didn’t force GM to fix the problem back then.
GM recalled 1.37 million cars in the U.S. last month because faulty ignition switches can shut off power to the front airbags. GM says it knows of 31 crashes and 13 deaths linked to the fault… (more)
EDITOR: Why would the former head of the NHTSA be described as a “gadfly”? Critic or even expert would be a more proper description.
