A federal judge yesterday denied a move to force General Motors to immediately pull 2.6 million recalled cars off the road as U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey slammed the company for failing to voluntarily issue a "park it now" emergency alert for the vehicles with faulty ignition switches linked to fatal crashes.
"GM's culture appears to have been driven by costs over consumer safety, which continues today by refusing to tell drivers to stop operating its defective vehicles until they're fixed," Markey said. "This so-called new GM has the same old values of profits over people that has endangered lives and caused grief to American families."
The car company has come under fire for failing to alert consumers sooner about faulty ignition switches that suddenly shut off the engine and disabled the power steering, power brakes and front air bags.
GM has also avoided issuing "park it now" emergency alerts — unlike other automakers, which have voluntarily issued the notices in the past for problems such as fires.
Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas ruled yesterday that any decision to issue an emergency alert for GM owners to "park it now" should be left up to the federal government through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"The Court is of the opinion that NHTSA is far better equipped than this Court to address the broad and complex issues of automotive safety and the regulation of automotive companies in connection with a nationwide recall," Ramos wrote.
The judge's ruling is a death sentence for GM drivers, said Robert C. Hilliard, who filed the motion and represents more than 100 people injured and the families of 16 fatal crash victims, including a Massachusetts man whose sister died behind the wheel of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in South Carolina.
"Somewhere in America tomorrow a family will lose a loved one in one of these defective vehicles. A life, needlessly ended and a family forever changed," Hilliard said in a statement to the Herald. "Meanwhile, GM celebrates winning on a technicality and feeling that they have permission to keep 2 million dangerous cars on the roads of America."
GM spokesman Jim Cain said, "We're obviously pleased with the ruling."
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