GM financial woes have begun

travelnutz wrote:
BillyW,

Nice misleading parsing of the article you quoted from! Why didn't you include the statement made by the police that she (Melton) was traveling to fast for the road conditions? It's was a rainy night as was said/printed in the article also. Doesn't take anyone with even half a brain to know that's why she lost control because when the ignition cuts OFF, the vehicle instantly loses drive power to the drive wheel/wheels and naturally slows down!

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"Although Cooper said Melton was observing the speed limit, police said she was "traveling too fast for the roadway conditions." AND "In Melton's crash, she was driving on a rainy night in Paulding County, Ga." AND "People in the car that hit her were injured and sued Melton's estate."

The whole truth with all the printed facts sure alters your parsed cherrypicked version of the omitted facts, doesn't it???

If she wasn't driving too fast for the rainy conditions, would she have even lost control???

I don't know. Would you lose control when your steering locked, your power brakes went away, your accelerator quit working, etc. The other vehicle hit hers because she went through an intersection with NO CONTROL of her vehicle. I'm sure GM ultimately paid "via her estate" to the occupants of the other vehicle too. I didn't imply anything with my parse. I simply singled out the REAL meat to this subject. I could also have included the fact that she had the vehicle serviced the prior day because of that faulty ignition switch. Sounds to me like she had the bad designed one replaced with another bad designed one. Go ahead and try to make it her fault, just to support your blind loyalty.