NEWSMAX: … “This is a landmark case because the auto industry has bobbed and weaved and done everything possible to avoid criminal sanctions forever,” Joan Claybrook, a former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told [The Wall Street Journal].
The NHTSA determined four years ago that five people in two incidents had died as a result of accidents involving claims of sudden acceleration. In the following three years, Toyota was fined four times by NHTSA for a total of $66.2 million for failing to report safety defects in a timely manner, The Journal reported.
Three of the fines were related to sudden acceleration.” … (more)
