{"id":2544,"date":"2021-09-07T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/?post_type=sub-practice-areas&#038;p=2544"},"modified":"2021-09-07T18:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:20:41","slug":"defective-tires","status":"publish","type":"sub-practice-areas","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/defective-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Defective Tires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration 33,000 accidents happen each year because of tires.&nbsp; In 2019, there were 612 total motor vehicle traffic fatalities in tire related crashes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2000, the Ford Motor Company issued recalls of 14.4 million tires in the U.S. as a result of failures that caused 271 deaths and 800 injuries.&nbsp; The tires involved in these accidents were Firestone tires.&nbsp; All of the failures involved tread separation, where the tire tread peeled off from the body of the tire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tread separation due to the interaction of steel and rubber tire elements has been a challenge in radial tire design since their development in 1946. Tread separation can occur on any wheel of the vehicle and on all makes and models of radial tires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ford\/Firestone tire recall led Congress to enact the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act or TREAD in 2000.&nbsp; Among other mandates, TREAD required new vehicles manufactured after 2007 to have a tire pressure monitoring system to warn a driver when a tire is significantly under inflated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several known pre-crash conditions of tire related crashes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Aged Tires<\/li><li>Defective\/recalled tires<\/li><li>Worn tires, low-tread depth<\/li><li>Inappropriate tire pressure (low or high)<\/li><li>Inappropriate tread depth<\/li><li>Inappropriate tire size<\/li><li>Inappropriate load capacity<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Like any other rubber product, tires have a limited service-life.&nbsp; Tires undergo an aging process even when they are not in use.&nbsp; The rubber parts become less elastic, the steel webbing inside the tire corrodes and the rubber mixture of which the tread is formed hardens.&nbsp; Recent standards require that tires six years or older may not be installed on a vehicle and tires that are ten years old should be taken out of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Low tire pressure or underinflation is a leading cause of tire blowout.&nbsp; Insufficient air pressure causes a tire to sag, flexing beyond the shape at which it can properly function to support a vehicle\u2019s load.&nbsp; The tire will then overhead and its rubber\u2019s bond with the reinforcing layers will soften, weaken and fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued regulations that are specific to the tires on large trucks.&nbsp; See Section 393.75.&nbsp; This section sets standards for truck tire groove pattern depth, tread depth and load carrying capacity.&nbsp; It also regulates tire inflation pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tire manufacturers can be held liable for defective tires that cause accidents, deaths and injuries.&nbsp; These cases require the use of top tire experts in the industry to inspect the defective tire and provide their opinion that the defective tire caused the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2546,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Products Liability: Defective Tires","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[106],"class_list":["post-2544","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-liability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}