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U-Haul Trailer Practices Raise Car Accident Risk, Newspaper Reports

National News • June 26, 2007
The nation's largest provider of rental trailers says it is "highly conservative'' about safety, but a newspaper investigation revealed that company practices have actually increased the risk of ...

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Subject: A little more info........

Posted On: June 26, 2007, 2:06 pm CDT
Posted By: GB
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Regarding the accident in the Ford Explorer: First, we all know that there were other problems with those vehicles flipping on the highway....and then a little research turns up that the woman who suffered the spinal injury had unbuckled her seat belt and was turned around to attend to her kid in the back seat. Below is a quote from an article on the topic:

However, those amounts were reduced by 10 percent, to about $9.9 million, because the jury apportioned 10 percent of the fault to the Burkes. It found that she either failed to exercise ordinary care or her husband failed to ensure that she was wearing a seat belt.

Court documents show that a state trooper said that Christopher Burke told him several hours after the accident that Corry Burke had "taken her seat belt off and was turned around in her seat tending to the baby" at the time of the accident.
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