LITIGATION: Ford takes an $18 million hit from S. Carolina jury

08/08/2006

A South Carolina jury ordered Ford Motor Co. to pay $15 million to a woman who claimed she was injured when her 1995
Explorer accelerated on its own and crashed.

The woman, Sonya Watson, was left a quadriplegic after the December 1999 accident. The Greenville, S.C., jury also
awarded $3 million to the estate of her fatally injured aunt, Patricia Carter, 48.