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Firestone announced a recall of over 14 million tires sold in the United States.

Every year, thousands of consumers are seriously injured or killed by defective tire products. Many of these injuries could be avoided if the manufacturers or distributors of these products took additional steps to ensure consumer safety.

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  • What types of defective tires have been recalled?
  • What should I do if I have been injured in an accident caused by defective tires?
  • Do I have a case?

DEFECTIVE TIRES: In August of 2000, Firestone announced a recall of over 14 million tires sold in the United States. Many of these tires had been used on Ford products, including the Ford Explorer. It was determined that a belt separation in the tire was the cause of tire blow outs resulting in the loss of control over the vehicle and, in many cases, catastrophic injury and death. NHTSA (The National Highway Transportation Safety Association) determined that a defect existed in Firestone Wilderness AT P235/75R15 and P255/70R16 tires manufactured before May, 1998 and ordered the recall.

WHAT TIRE MAKERS KNEW: Tire manufacturers have long known that a leading cause of tread separation is the design and placement, as well as the adhesion, of the radial "belts" with the overlying tread. Unless all these factors are just right, high temperatures and ordinary driving practices can cause a separation of these layers of materials.

Most radial tires include a nylon cap belt to bond the underlying belts to the outer core of the tire. This cap belt is normally placed between to top belt and the outside tire tread, thus protecting the inner belts from movement and abrading against each other, a factor that could lead to the entire tire failing.

This extra cap belt is missing in the design of the Firestone ATX and ATX II tires, and many of the Wilderness AT tires subject to the Firestone recall.

Although the severity of some of the accidents associated with the failure of these tires may be the result of them being mounted on an SUV, there is no question that the accidents themselves would not have occurred except to the design defects of the tires.

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