A judge has rejected General Motors’ effort to dismiss a third trial relating to its ignition-switch scandal.
This latest trial focuses around a 2007 Saturn Sky which in 2011, crossed into an oncoming lane of traffic and collided with a truck, killing its driver. This prompted manslaughter chargers against the Sky driver, Zachary Stevens, which were dropped after his car was named in GM’s ignition-switch recalls.
Left Lane News reports that GM attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed because a key shown to jurors was not the same one used by the Sky in the accident. Despite this, the judge concluded that the incorrect key didn’t warrant the entire case to be rejected.
In a statement, GM said “It will be up to the jury to make sense of the plaintiffs’ confusing, contradictory and misleading story about the key, which they told the jury was from Mrs. Stevens’ Saturn Sky. We proved to the court the key could not even turn the ignition because it came from another vehicle.”
Attorneys from General Motors say that the faulty ignition key played no part in the fatal car crash and blames the accident on the “reckless driving” of the plaintiff.
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