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Toyota's seat belt trial opens
By Times wires
Published November 28, 2007
STOCKTON, Calif. - Gurinder Singh's lawyers say he would still have a father if a faulty seat belt in the family car had unlatched instead of pinning his dad inside the flaming Toyota Corolla where he lost his life in early 2003. A civil trial on their claim that Toyota Motor Corp., the world's No. 2 automaker, made thousands of Corollas equipped with unsafe seat belts opened Tuesday in central California. A second lawsuit against the automaker, filed Nov. 6 in nearby Alameda County Superior Court, also threatened to undermine Toyota's squeaky-clean image. Katy Cameron, a whistleblower at the plant where the Singh family claims their Corolla was made, has alleged managers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif., approved vehicles with broken seat belts and other serious defects. Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Xavier Dominicis declined to comment on either case Tuesday, but told reporters Monday that "as heart-rending and tragic as this collision was, Toyota has an altogether different view of the facts."
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by Bryan
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01/15/08 09:36 AM
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Too bad the article doesn't include the model years of the Toyotas in this case.
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