Ford Motor Co. says it will fight a Cobb County jury’s award of $3 million to the children of a woman killed when a gravel-laden truck weighing nearly 30 tons smashed into the back of her Ford Tempo, sending her down an embankment.
According to the attorneys for Lynne and Lathy Reese, the 2002 death of their 76-year-old mother was due to Ford’s use of a “yielding seat,” designed-according to Ford’s filing’s-to absorb the shock of a rear-end collision and lessen the possibility of injury from a more rigid seat.
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