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7 28 2006 Engineer Testifies In Ford Motor Co Case

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Engineer testifies in Ford Motor Co. case

Published: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 2:38 pm
Last updated: Friday, July 28, 2006 - 6:13 Pm 

 By Angelia Davis
STAFF WRITER
adavis@greenvillenews.com


An engineer testifying Friday in a case against Ford Motor Co. said electromagnetic interference caused the sudden
acceleration of the Ford Explorer involved in a 1999 wreck that killed one woman and left another a quadriplegic.

The lawsuits against Ford Motor Co., TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc. and D&D Motors Inc. now being heard in Circuit
Court in Greenville question the vehicle’s occupant restraint system, electronic cruise control and vehicle body and
chassis.

Plaintiff attorneys have said the vehicle accelerated and “took off” on Interstate 385 in Laurens County. But defense
attorneys for Ford and others have said the two women weren’t wearing seat belts when the 1995 Ford Explorer wrecked.

“That makes design not an issue,” said Adam Fox, an attorney for TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc., one defendant in the
case.

Testifying for the plaintiffs, engineer Antony Anderson explained videos and gave demonstrations of electromagnetic
interference using such things as motors, steel, and a battery-powered watch to show the visual impact of something
he said you can’t see but does exist. Later, Anderson, an electrical engineering consultant and expert witness who
said he had studied depositions in the case, was asked by attorney Edward Bell II whether it was his opinion that
the cause of the sudden acceleration was mechanical or electrical.

Anderson reply was, “In my opinion, it was electrical.”

Anderson then was asked if electrical is something the customer has control of, to which he said “no.”

Anderson also responded positively when asked if he believed electromagnetic interference was the cause of the sudden
acceleration.

The trial is expected to continue Saturday and next week.

 
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