Isuzu Rodeo Rollover and Defective Seat Belt Result In Wrongful Death

FACTS & ALLEGATIONS:

Doe’s daughter, Priscilla, was driving a 1992 Isuzu Rodeo LS southbound on an interstate highway with Doe, her husband, and their three children as passengers. When she veered onto the shoulder to avoid a deer, the car went out of control, turned counter-clockwise across the southbound lanes of traffic and then turned clockwise into the left northbound lane. The car then rolled over on the driver’s side in the northbound traffic lane.

Doe’s husband, 48 was ejected from the car and died at the scene from blunt head trauma.

Doe, sued Isuzu and the passenger restraint system manufacturer. They claimed the Isuzu Rodeo model was designed unsafely in that its static stability factor (SSF) was 1.076- among the lowest in the industry. This SFF was insufficient to prevent rollover even though the vehicle had not tripped over the road shoulder, plaintiffs asserted, and there was a 30 to 40 percent chance of rollover in the event the car spun out of control in the manner than occurred here.

Plaintiff also asserted the restraint system was defective in the car as the latch plate had separated from the car during the rollover and the latch plate had allowed Doe’s husband to be ejected.

RESULT: SETTLEMENT Confidential

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Rob Ammons is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, in addition to being Board Certified in Civil Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Rob Ammons’ law practice, The Ammons Law Firm, is located in Houston, Texas. The Ammons Law Firm practice is exclusively personal injury law, handling such cases as tire defects, oil rig explosions, truck accidents, plant explosions, refinery accidents, wrongful death, post-collision fires, seat belt defects, airbag defects, SUV rollovers, and workplace negligence.