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Child Air Bag Death Case To Go To Trial Against DaimlerChrysler in Detroit

3 April 2000

ADVISORY/Child Air Bag Death Case To Go To Trial Against DaimlerChrysler in Detroit On April 5

    --The case of a seven-year old girl killed by the passenger air bag in a Chrysler-manufactured Dodge Caravan will go to jury trial on Wednesday April 5, 2000 before Judge Louis F. Simmons, Jr. in the Circuit Court for Wayne County, City-County Building (corner of Woodward and Jefferson), Detroit, MI 48226.
    The trial was originally scheduled for March 13 but was rescheduled by Judge Simmons to April 5.
    Plaintiffs are the family of Alison Sanders, killed in Baltimore Maryland on October 15, 1995.
    For background information on the Sanders case, see the article "Crash Test Kids" by Curt Guyette in the June 16, 1999 issue of the Detroit Metro Times, available online at www.metrotimes.com/airbags. A three-page case summary is attached.