STOCKTON, Calif. AP – Gurinder Singh’s lawyers say he would still have a father if a faulty seatbelt in the family car had unlatched instead of pinning his dad inside the flaming Toyota Corolla where he lost his life.

A civil trial on their claim that Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s No. 2 automaker, made thousands of Corollas equipped with unsafe seatbelts opened Tuesday in central California.