A lawyer for families of people killed and hurt in accidents allegedly caused by faulty ignition switches in now recalled General Motors cars said the automaker's firing of 15 workers doesn't go far enough.
"It's the wrong focus," said Robert C. Hilliard of Corpus Christi, Texas. "It wasn't these employees who created the problem. It was a company attitude that started from the top all the way down. To fire these employees instead of cutting off the head of the snake doesn't fix the problem."
GM says a pattern of incompetence and neglect, not a larger conspiracy or cover-up, is to blame for the more than decade-long delay in recalling older model Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other small cars with defective ignition switches that caused the cars to lose power, disabling the steering, brakes and air bags.
Yesterday, CEO Mary Barra, who released the results of an internal investigation into GM's missteps, said 15 employees — many of them senior legal and engineering executives — have been forced out for failing to disclose the defect, which the company links to 13 deaths and 54 crashes. Five other employees have been disciplined.
U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) told the Herald the report shows GM recognizes it must "clean up a culture of ineptitude."
"But an internal investigation alone is not nearly enough to ensure that a decade-long tragedy like this never happens again," Markey said. "We need to enact legislation that requires auto manufacturers to submit information on possible defects as soon as they become aware of them."
Herald wire services contributed to this report.
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