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Jury Orders Toyota to Pay $11 Million in Accelerator Lawsuit
A jury in Minnesota has found Toyota Motor Corp. 60% responsible and ordered the company to pay about $11 million for a crash that killed three people and seriously injured two others.
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A jury in Minnesota has found Toyota Motor Corp. 60% responsible and ordered the company to pay about $11 million for a crash that killed three people and seriously injured two others.
The lawsuit claimed a defective accelerator system in a 1996 Toyota Camry caused driver Koua Fong Lee to slam into another car stopped at an intersection. The lawsuit also claimed Lee's brakes failed to stop the car.
Lee was convicted of vehicular manslaughter and served nearly three years in prison. He was released in 2010 after complaints surfaced about suddenly accelerating Toyotas. He then joined a lawsuit filed against the carmaker by families of the victims of his crash.
Toyota tells Reuters it is considering whether to appeal the verdict.
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