On January 28, 2004, the Honorable Brian Gasdia of the Los Angeles Superior Court granted DaimlerChrysler Corporation's Motion for Summary Judgment in the case of Socorro Reid v, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Case No. VC039577.
 
The Reid accident occurred on April 24, 2002, in Huntington Park, California. Reid was driving a 2001 Dodge Neon when she rear-ended a Southern California Gas utility truck at an unknown speed. As a result of this incident, plaintiff claimed the air bag in her vehicle was defective in that it failed to deploy.
 
Judge Gasdia ruled as a matter of law that DaimlerChrysler Corporation presented expert declarations that there was nothing diagnostically wrong with the air bag system of the subject vehicle and it operated as designed. Furthermore, plaintiffs failed to produce any evidence to support their claims of defect or that plaintiff's injuries were the result of the subject air bag failing to deploy.
 
Rod Cappy handled this case for DaimlerChrysler Corporation. Please contact him for any questions on this case.