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Automakers Should Pay for Air Bag On-Off Switches, According to Attorney Kenneth Ingram, Jr.

20 October 1997

Automakers Should Pay for Air Bag On-Off Switches, According to Attorney Kenneth Ingram, Jr.

    ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 20 -- The following is a comment from
Alabama attorney Kenneth Ingram, Jr. regarding on/off switches:

    "Consumers should not have to pay twice for automakers' air bag mistakes,"
according to Kenneth Ingram, Jr., an Alabama attorney who, in conjunction with
a number of other attorneys, has filed a national class action suit to force
automakers to pay for on/off switches on air bags.
    "So far manufacturers who are developing on/off switches intend to have
car owners pay for on/off switches.  Consumers bought and paid for these cars
with every expectation they would be safe for their children.  Asking them to
pay a second time to make their air bags safe adds insult to injury.
Manufacturers who use inferior air bag systems and sensors should have to
shoulder the expense for their own mistakes," Ingram said.
    Ingram commended, Parents for Safer Air Bags, a group of parents of
children who have been killed by air bags for the steps they took today to
press for better air bags.  "Rather than fighting against this life-saving
technology they are pointing their finger exactly where it should be pointed,
at the automakers who install inferior air bag systems," Ingram said.

SOURCE  Ralph Hoar & Associates, LLC