Nissan......apples and oranges......Your Spokane accident is over 8 yrs old at trial......and centers around a missing seat belt responsible for death in an accident......
The Monk accident happened 6 months ago......The manufacturer examined the tire valves and agreed there was a problem.....
Yep, read all that. You completely missed my point. NONE of that says the valve stem went, causing the tire to instantly explode, causing the explorer to instantly roll, and kill him. Got it?
I've had many tires blow (probably changed 2 a month for years due to scoria on our roads), and I have NEVER lost control, and 80% of that wasn't even on a paved road. I've lost tires towing, I've lost tires on a semi. It was the front on the semi with a 24' box while I was making a sweeping turn onto another road. I couldn't make the turn then, so instead of going in at an angle and rolling, I steered it directly into the ditch. All it needed was to get pulled out and a new tire.
I'm not debating the valve stem was bad, and I'm not debating that it caused the tire to let go. I'm debating if the valve stem directly caused the accident, or directly caused an incident that the DRIVER then lost control of the vehicle. I don't know, that's why I was trying to find more info.
I was on my way to high school one day and pulled a neighbor girl out of a car she rolled 30' down an embankment. She was in the hospital for a few days. Why? There was a bunny in the road. My sister rolled my dad's pickup, totalling it, and beating her up badly. Why? Another damn bunny. If she went another 1/4 roll (did a 540 and ended on the roof), she would have gone off an embankment into a deep pool of our creek and drowned.
You could say a bunny caused them to lose control and roll their vehicle. If they had died, the news might say that a bunny caused them to die.
I had a bunny jump in front of me, and I smeared the little ******* into the road. The only thing that happened to me was pressure washing a few guts off the side.
A neighbor had a deer pop up on him, and he swerved and slid into the ditch and totaled his new truck, getting pretty beat up in the process.
I had a deer pop up, and I held the wheel straight and creamed him. Dad had to get a new hood and a new grill guard.
Same incidents, completely different outcomes. Were the bunnies or deer actually at fault for the accidents? No, the drivers were.
My best friend's uncle had a round baler malfunction. He hopped out with the pto still in gear because it was easier to tell when he got it fixed. I found him going around the baler.
Did the baler malfunction cause him to die? No, his own stupidity did.
See my point? Just because the valve stem failed and caused the tire to fail, doesn't necessarily mean that they caused him to die. Hence, me wanting to find more of the story.
