Lawsuit claims defective seatbelt caused severe injury to passenger
While driving his 1997 Nissan Pathfinder, Michael Guillory was hit by a vehicle that failed to stop at a stop sign.
Although he states he was properly wearing his seatbelt, Guillory believes he was injured because the Pathfinder failed to protect him and the seatbelt unlatched and failed to restrain him.
Guillory filed a product liability suit against Nissan on March 10 in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
The lawsuit states that another vehicle, driven by Jeffrey Moon, disregarded a stop sign and crashed into Guillory's vehicle. The plaintiff says his injuries are a result of the Nissan being "not reasonably crashworthy, and not reasonably fit for unintended, but clearly foreseeable, accidents."
Teaching Point
There is a legal doctrine called the doctrine of "crashworthiness." That means that cars and trucks are supposed to be designed to protect the people inside in foreseeable crashes.
All too often, however, seatbelts fail, roofs crush in, cars roll over, tires fail, vehicles catch on fire, peole are ejected, etc. None of these events should occur in a foreseeable vehicle crash.
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