http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/bronx\/van_is_fatally_flawed_jck8jwuDaoT2x2oYHKt0AM<\/a><\/p>\r\nByron Bloch, an expert witness in auto-safety cases,\u00a0said that\u00a0the 15-passenger van that members of a Queens church congregation\u00a0were traveling in has “a high center of gravity, a narrow wheel base and a poor suspension system,” according to the Post. Bloch said that all creates stress on the van’s rear tires, stress that increases when the vehicle has a lot of passengers.<\/p>\r\n
There were 14 members of the Joy Fellowship\u00a0Christian Assembly on the van when it blew its rear tire Saturday afternoon. The van then\u00a0went out of control and repeatedly flipped over on the New York Thruway near the Woodbury Commons outlet mall, killing the church’s bishop and pastor, as well as four others.<\/p>\r\n
Bloch has called for Ford to redesign its van, which he deems dangerous,<\/p>\r\n
Now\u00a0here\u00a0is something the\u00a0congregation could have done, but didn’t, that could have saved lives.\u00a0Many of them weren’t wearing seat belts.\u00a0Seven people were thrown out of the van when it flipped.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Block told the Post that Ford\u00a0could have done something about that, too. If the Ford vans has shatterproof glass, that could have stopped passengers from being ejected from the van, according to Block.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Now maybe Ford will address these issues. Maybe.<\/p>\r\n
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The six victims of a crash last weekend, who were killed when their van blew a rear tire and rolled over repeatedly in New York, had two things going against them. One they could not control, the second they could have.\u00a0 First, an auto safety expert explained in the New York Post Monday that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,5,3,165],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ford-vans-and-tire-blowouts","tag-tire-accident-attorney","tag-tire-accidents","tag-tire-blowouts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}