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amazing story. Hope she gets a few $M
Woman Cleared in Death Linked to G.M.’s Faulty Ignition Switch
Ten years since her boyfriend’s death in a defective Saturn Ion, a Texas woman has been cleared of the criminal record she had carried as a result of it.
Candice Anderson was held responsible for the death of Gene Mikale Erickson, 25, when he was killed on Nov. 15, 2004, riding as a front-seat passenger in her beige Ion. Ms. Anderson crashed the car into a tree on a bright afternoon while driving along a country road in Ben Wheeler, Tex.
In May, The New York Times reported that General Motors considered Mr. Erickson a victim of its faulty ignition switch, which has led to the recall of 2.6 million cars, including the Ion, this year and engulfed the automaker in the gravest safety crisis in its history. The defect, which can cause a loss of power, disabling power brakes, power steering and airbags, has been linked to at least 35 deaths.
On Monday, 10 years and nine days since the accident, a judge in Van Zandt County, Tex., overturned Ms. Anderson’s guilty plea and cleared her record. Ms. Anderson’s parents and Mr. Erickson’s mother were in the courtroom, the same one in which Ms. Anderson had been indicted by a grand jury years earlier.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/bu...on-switch.html
amazing story. Hope she gets a few $M
from who? Her lawyer that advised her to plead guilty?
From GM.
Lawyers suck
I bet Wayne Wright is knocking at her front door as we speak.
This case interested me because I have never heard of anyone being charged with negligent homicide from a true accident where racing, drugs, or alcohol weren't involved. Turns out with a little more research they were both whacked out on illegal (not prescribed to them) prescription drugs and when the first person on the scene of the accident wanted to call 911 Ms. Anderson begged him not to because "she didn't want to go to jail".
Not saying the switch didn't cause the accident but there is absolutely no evidence it did, either.
They are starting to prosecute people for simple accidents. I even recall a woman and her kid were hit by a car, the kid was killed, and they went after the mom because they weren't crossing at a crosswalk.
In May 2007, five months before Ms. Anderson entered her guilty plea, G.M. had conducted an internal review of the crash and quietly ruled its car was to blame, but never let Ms. Anderson or local law enforcement officials know.A G.M. engineer had found just a month earlier that power to the vehicle had most likely shut off.
uh, you didn't read the article?
The article NEVER said the blood test indicated she was stoned. It said the officer thought she was stoned before he got the blood test back. apparently Ms. Erickson thought she was stoned too since she didn't want the police called.
Didn't you read the article?
Actually, I don't know if the article was edited since I posted it, but I remember it stating blood tests found small traces of Xanax.
But your claim that there's no evidence the switch caused the crash flies in the face of the quote Shastafarian posted above from the article and the actual ruling and clearing of her record.
BTW, El Nono. I'm not defending GM.
No, I know. I honestly thought you missed that quote.
BTW, same story here with the Xanax part still intact.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/10/news...dice-anderson/
Find a statement where GM admitted fault.
good luck.
The automaker’s public acknowledgment linking Ms. Anderson’s crash to the defective ignition switch came in a letter from G.M.’s lawyers that was submitted by her lawyers to the district judge in Van Zandt County, Tex.
Should be in the case file.
Quote from the letter:
"First, the 2004 Saturn Ion driven by Ms. Anderson on the date of the accident was a vehicle that would have been subject to the Ignition Switch Recall issued by New GM in February 2014," Godfrey wrote. "Second, New GM confirms that New GM has determined that the crash involving Ms. Anderson is one in which the recall condition may have caused or contributed to the frontal air bag non-deployment in the accident."
"may" is not an admission of fault or responsibility.
Also note the calculated distinction between "old" GM that was possibly responsible and "new" GM that didn't manufacture the vehicle in question.
Well, it went from "we don't know anything about it" to "maybe it was our switch"... as this case shows, the difference is pretty ing huge.
Like I said, I'm not defending GM. I just hate it when these so called "reporters" twist statements and omit facts to give a totally distorted version of the real story..
Not sure what you mean...
Well, the boo-hoo story you originally posted conveniently left out the fact she was freaking stoned and flatly stated the ignition switch was the cause.
That's what I meant.
Uh? she wasn't stoned, and the switch was the primary cause... that's why she's free.
“At the time, unbeknownst to Ms. Anderson or my office, there were issues regarding her 2004 Saturn Ion,” Ms. Poynter Dixon wrote in a letter in support of Ms. Anderson in July. “Had I known at the time that G.M. knew of these issues and has since admitted to such, I do not believe the grand jury would have indicted her for intoxication manslaughter.”
same
LOL
she was never incarcerated in the first place. $10,000 fine and court cost investment to get a multi million settlement from GM that never admitted fault. Pretty sweet investment.
I am going to quit arguing the english language with you if you don't understand the not so subtle difference between "might have" and "was" since the vehicle was never tested.
And as far as her being stoned, most sober people don't beg good samaritans to not call the police when they drive up on a fatal accident because the driver "didn't want to go to jail". She obviously knew she was stoned even if you choose not to admit it. On an anecdotal note (which I realize is clearly inadmissible in Spurs talk) I have suffered a severe concussion and three broken ribs and it never occurred to me that I shouldn't seek help because I might go to jail.
Have a great weekend.
She had a blood test done after the accident, no pot found. There's no need to make stuff up. She also had an intoxicated manslaughter felony on her record, good luck explaining det one to a prospective employer.
What you're saying simply contradicts what the actual prosecutor and judge said and did (clear her record of this incident), which happened *only after* GM admitted to the switch in her vehicle being defective.
But you know better? LOL indeed.
You have a good weekend too.
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