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UK: Ford Refuses to Comment on Safety Fears, Reports just-auto.com

16 November 2000

UK: Ford Refuses to Comment on Safety Fears, Reports just-auto.com

    LONDON, Nov. 16 http://www.just-auto.com -- Ford UK is
refusing to comment on allegations made in a Dispatches programme to be
screened by Britain's Channel 4 on Thursday evening (16 November) according to
the motor industry news website just-auto.com.
    The programme claims that it has unveiled a major safety issue in the
design of the Ford Explorer SUV which may have caused the death of one driver
in Britain and a number of others in the US. The report at http://just-
auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=18762 says the programme claims problems with the
cruise control system have led to a number of terrifying incidents in which
Explorers have accelerated out of control.
    The "Dispatches" investigators say that despite receiving a growing number
of complaints, Ford is still refusing to address the real cause of the
problem.
    A Ford UK spokesman declined to answer questions about the programme but,
in a prepared statement, the company told just-auto.com it had identified
"three potential issues ...  with Ford Explorer in the UK between 1997 and
1999 (and) all these issues were resolved through Ford's investigation and
recall procedures and any necessary rework action (was) carried out on
vehicles already sold".

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http://just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=18762

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