No one in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, was surprised when Eric Thomas, a popular young doctor, sued the Ford Motor Company for the wrongful death of his pregnant wife, Tracy, after a minor accident involving their powerful Explorer. Backed by the medical examiner’s findings, the lawsuit claimed that the Explorer’s air bag inflated improperly, causing injuries that resulted in Tracy’s suffocation.
But this seemingly simple product-liability case soon evolved into something far darker and more complex . . .
After an exhaustive investigation, Ford turned the tables, alleging that Tracy Thomas did not die from injuries resulting from a defective air bag. She died because of manual strangulation. Now, it was the defendant, the giant automaker Ford, who became a de facto prosecutor, with plaintiff Eric Thomas, a passenger in the Explorer, accused of murdering his wife . . .
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Summary
This true crime book tells the story about the case of an individual Eric Thomas versus Ford Motor Company. Mr.Thomas maintains that the airbag in the vehicle that his wife, child and he were in, exploded with such force, that when they had a minor accident, the force of the airbag killed his pregnant wife. Ford Motor Company has to try to prove that the fatality to Eric Thomas' wife was not due to the airbag, but a more sinister scenario. Although this book has no illustrations, it does cover the case well. The reason I gave it only a 2 star rating was because the way it was written seemed to go over the same details over and over again. Still an interesting read.