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GM Completes Switch Recall Filings to NHTSA, Ends Daily Fine
General Motors Co. has finally answered all 107 questions asked in early March by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about its belated ignition switch recall, The Detroit News reports.
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General Motors Co. has finally answered all 107 questions asked in early March by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about its belated ignition switch recall, The Detroit News reports.
NHTSA gave GM an April 3 deadline for its responses. The company filed some 271,000 pages of documents by then but had answered only about two-thirds of the questions.
The agency has been charging GM $7,000 per day since then as it awaited more information. NHTSA tells the News it received the last of the requested documents on June 5, suggesting GM's fine will total $441,000. That amount will be due on July 4, according to the newspaper.
Separately, on June 13 GM will pay $35 million fine to NHTSA for failing to report the original defect sooner.
Last week the News said GM had turned over more than 1 million documents to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the delayed recall.
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