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Lawn Mower Safety: Practice Common Sense

Posted on April 21, 2010
Posted by Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner If you believe in urban legend, you might think that lawn mowers attack their victims...

CPSC Launches Searchable Database for Consumers

Posted on April 21, 2010
Posted by Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner On April 15, 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to begin working on a searchable database, www...

Bicycle Safety Means More Than Wearing a Helmet

Posted on April 20, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner "Around 33,000 people die in car crashes in the U...

Children and Window Safety: Toddler's Death Renews Concern

Posted on April 15, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner As warmer weather arrives, police are cautioning residents to be careful when they leave windows open to let in fresh air...

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Toyota Knew of Sudden Acceleration Problems In Early 2006

Posted on April 09, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner Bloomberg News reports that according to "company timelines" submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Toyota "knew about flaws that could cause unintended acceleration more than 3 1/2 years before it recalled cars and trucks to fix the defects...

DOT Seeks Help From NASA, NAS To Solve Unintended Acceleration Problems

Posted on March 30, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner CONTACT US The Washington Post reports that the Department of Transportation (DOT) has designated nine NASA experts to help solve the "scientific mystery" surrounding unintended acceleration in Toyotas...

NHTSA Considers Mandating Black Boxes For All US Vehicles

Posted on March 29, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner CONTACT US USA Today reports that the NHTSA may require "Black boxes" in all US automobiles...

Cell Phone Use, Texting While Driving Causes Catastrophic Consequences

Posted on March 24, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner CONTACT US I mentioned recently that I present volunteer seminars at Metro area schools on the issue of distracted driving...

Toyota Plans to Replace Accelerators

Posted on March 23, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner CONTACT US The New York Times reports that Toyota has announced that its dealerships will "provide replacement accelerator pedals to owners unhappy with repairs" after a series of cases of unintended acceleration in cars that have already been through the recall process...

Distracted Driving Kills, Seriously Injures

Posted on March 18, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner CONTACT ME Approximately 5...

Toyota's Findings Inconsistent With Owners' Claims

Posted on March 17, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner CONTACT US Toyota said on Monday that the sudden-acceleration claim given by a San Diego man, who stated that his Prius hybrid car accelerated out of his control for 30 miles, was 'inconsistent' with the findings of its initial examination of the car, according to the Associated Press...

Classmates.com Settles for $9.5 Million

Posted on March 16, 2010
Seattle based Classmates.com agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by users of the social network for $9.5 million. The lawsuit contended that the company essentially tricked people into paying for membership by pretending that their classmates were looking for them...

Acceleration Problems Not a Toyota-Only Issue

Posted on March 04, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner Although Toyota has been in the spotlight recently, "unintended acceleration has been a problem across the auto industry, according to an NPR analysis of consumer complaints to federal regulators...

Toyota Illegally Withholding Information, Says Cong. Towns

Posted on March 01, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner The Los Angeles Times reports that House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns said that Toyota "'deliberately withheld' evidence in lawsuits related to vehicle safety, exhibiting a 'systematic disregard for the law...

Sen. Braley, Congress Weigh-In at Toyota Oversight Hearings

Posted on February 27, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner This week Congressman Bruce Braley (Iowa) participated in the Toyota recall Oversight and Investigations Hearing...

June '09 Metro Crash Potentially Caused By Mixing Equipment Brands

Posted on February 25, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner The Washington Post reports that Metro's "decision to mix different brands of signaling equipment -- despite a warning from one of the manufacturers -- could have caused the June crash that killed nine people, a senior engineer with the company," Alstom, "said Wednesday at a federal safety hearing...

Why We Need Trial Lawyers

Posted on February 24, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner I have been blogging a lot about the recent problems facing Toyota...

Toyota Officials May Have Put Profits Over Safety

Posted on February 22, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner According to several news sources, Toyota officials apparently boasted about becoming subject to merely a limited recall in 2007 concerning defects in its automobiles...

Toyota Acceleration Defect Linked to 34 Fatalities, Says NHTSA

Posted on February 16, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner NBC Nightly News reported that "Federal safety officials said today the number of deaths that could be linked to sudden acceleration of Toyotas is now up to 34, based on consumer complaints they've received...

Toyota Recalls 400k Defective Prius and Other Hybrid Cars

Posted on February 09, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner Earlier today Toyota announced a global recall of more than 400,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles due to defects in the braking system of the vehicles...

Toyota Suspends Sales of Eight Car Models

Posted on January 27, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner For the first time in American history, a car manufacturer--Toyota--has told its dealers to stop selling eight of its models due to a potentially dangerous defect...

Texting While Driving Banned for Truck, Bus Drivers

Posted on January 26, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner It's official! It is illegal for commercial drivers, including truck and bus drivers, to operate vehicles while text-messaging...

More Than 1.6 Million Car Crahes Caused By Texting, Cell Use

Posted on January 14, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner The National Safety Council (NSC) announced today least 28% of all traffic crashes (translating into at least 1...

Virginia's Highway Safety Ranked Worst

Posted on January 13, 2010
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a nonprofit advocacy group, has rated Virginia one of the worst states in the nation in highway safety, according to the Washington Post...

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