ADVISORY/Child Air Bag Death Case To Go To Trial Against DaimlerChrysler in Detroit On April 5.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (April 5)

--(AutomotiveWire)

The case of a seven-year old girl killed by the passenger air bag in a Chrysler-manufactured Dodge Caravan Not to be confused with the Nissan Caravan.

The Dodge Caravan and Dodge Grand Caravan are minivans manufactured by the Chrysler Group (DaimlerChrysler from 1998). will go to jury trial on Wednesday April 5, 2000 before Judge Louis F. Simmons, Jr. in the Circuit Court for Wayne County Wayne County is the name of sixteen counties in the United States of America, some named for the American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne:

Wayne County, Georgia
Wayne County, Illinois
Wayne County, Indiana
Wayne County, Iowa

, City-County Building (corner of Woodward and Jefferson), Detroit, MI 48226.

The trial was originally scheduled for March 13 but was rescheduled by Judge Simmons to April 5.

Plaintiffs are the family of Alison Sanders San´ders

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For background information on the Sanders case, see the article "Crash Test Kids" by Curt Guyette in the June 16, 1999 issue of the Detroit Metro Times The Metro Times (originally Detroit Metro Times) is the largest circulating weekly newspaper in the metro Detroit area. Supported entirely by advertising, it is distributed free of charge every Wednesday in newsstands in businesses and libraries around the city , available online at www.metrotimes.com/airbags. A three-page case summary is attached.

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