Product Liability - Thursday, June 10, 2010 14:38 - 0 Comments

The 15-Passenger Van Is Still Dangerous

We have written in several issues over the past year or so that one of the most dangerous vehicles on the road in terms of rollover is a vehicle marketed for use by ball teams, scout troops, churches and day care centers. That vehicle is none other than the 15-passenger van. The history of this vehicle is marked by safety hazards that were identified by litigation, NHTSA and the National Transportation Safety Board. There are alternative designs that should have been considered by the manufacturers which would have made the vans safer. But none of the manufacturers saw fit to use them in designing the vans.

Even unloaded and without passengers, the vans are unsafe. But more passengers and more cargo in these vans makes things much worse. Continue…