http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/crime\/2010-06-07\/story\/wreck-killed-4-jacksonville-teens-leads-lawsuit-against-tire-car<\/a><\/p>\r\nThe suit was filed by the family of one of the teenagers killed in the accident, and it named\u00a0Cooper Tire and Rubber Co. and three others as defendants.<\/p>\r\n
The fatal crash took place on Interstate 295 on the last day of school in 2009 for Ed White High School. The students\u00a0were\u00a0heading to the beach in an Explorer SUV when its left rear tire had a blowout, causing the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Four students died and four others were injured when the tread of their Explorer’s\u00a0left rear tire separated. The tire was a Cooper Cobra, and the suit alleges that Cooper’s manufacturing techniques make the treads of its\u00a0tires more prone to separating.<\/p>\r\n
The lawyer for one of the teens that died, 16-year-old Shannon Bloom, said that Cooper has had many cases of its tires separating, causing\u00a0accidents. There are numerous negligence suits pending against the tire maker.<\/p>\r\n
\u00a0A spokesman for Cooper Tire told The Times-Union that the fatal accident wasn’t caused by his company’s tires or their design.\u00a0The tire maker pointed out that the Explorer involved in the Florida\u00a0accident is only supposed to\u00a0seat five people.<\/p>\r\n
But the day of the accident, the Explorer\u00a0had nine people on board, and only one was wearing a seat belt, the driver Brandon Hodges.\u00a0Cooper Tire\u00a0also pointed out that Hodges didn’t have a driver’s license at the time of the accident.<\/p>\r\n
Hodges, 16,\u00a0has been charged with driving without a license causing death. He is awaiting trial.<\/p>\r\n
Accident victim Bloom’s attorney contends\u00a0that he can prove that\u00a0the crash would have happened even if an experienced driver had been behind the wheel.<\/p>\r\n
The Explorer was owned by the parents of one of the teens hurt in the crash, Rebecca Pilkington, 16.\u00a0\u00a0The SUV had been in for service about two weeks before the crash, and a Cooper distributor, Big Chief’s Tire Co., replaced two of its tires.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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