Litigation over a fatal crash in 2014 renews spotlight on @GM’s safety practices, seven years after the automaker vowed never to repeat a failure to recall cars with defective ignition switches. @mike_d_spector @nycblesser report reut.rs/2OHraz5 via @specialreports 
The lawyer who found evidence of General Motors' failure to recall cars with faulty ignition switches now alleges in a lawsuit that the automaker concealed issues with a steering sensor.
GM denies the allegations
GM denies the allegations
Since 2007, GM has confronted a series of issues with a steering sensor, including high levels of warranty claims and a manufacturing flaw, without recalling vehicles, a review by @Reuters of hundreds of documents filed in the ongoing litigation shows
Roughly 778,000 vehicles with the sensor, including Chevrolet Trailblazer and GMC Envoy SUVs, were built between 2006 and 2009.
The case is the only one Reuters has identified in which a death is alleged to have stemmed from a failure of the steering sensor
The case is the only one Reuters has identified in which a death is alleged to have stemmed from a failure of the steering sensor
GM told @Reuters it had conducted a thorough investigation, including analyzing internal and external data, and was 'not aware of any other complaints alleging accidents' involving electronic stability control disengaging due to a faulty steering sensor aside from the 2014 crash
U.S. vehicle safety regulators reviewed evidence related to an allegedly defective steering sensor was used in some older GM SUVs but decided against opening a formal investigation into the matter, @NHTSAgov told @Reuters.
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