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Toyo Tire Holdings of Americas Inc. is recalling about 68,763 tires due to defective tire beads that may crack under some circumstances. This flaw could consequently cause a crack to go unnoticed in which case the tire may fail, leading to loss of vehicle control and an injury or fatality accident.

Tires included in the recall are certain Toyo Extensa A/S Tires, size P225/60R16 97T, manufactured from September 20, 2009 to November 6, 2010.

As Fountain Hills rollover accident attorneys, we were saddened to hear about a 71-year-old woman who lost control of her car in a neighborhood near Tepee and Boulder Drive on Monday, January 9, 2012, according to news reports published in Fox 10. The driver apparently lost control while backing out of her driveway, backed into a neighbor’s garage, then lost control as she continued down the street. The Jaguar sh [...]

When Bill Brownwell was cruising in a 15 passenger van and suddenly felt a shake in the back of the van and to his right, he became concerned and alarmed and turned around to take a look at what the noise was. Brownwell was driving a 1993 Ford Econoline E350 15-passenger van on a church outing for a spring concert tour in 2004 when he lost control of the 15 passenger van when the right rear tire tread separated. L [...]

On January 5, a driver apparently lost control of his car on Route 9 in NJ and hit a fire hydrant and a utility pole. He then crashed into Gregory’s Bar & Restaurant at the Jersey Shore, which had about 100 patrons at the time. According to an article on Philly.com, a passenger was killed and two people were seriously injured. The article did not say if the driver was under the influence of alcohol or drugs [...]

A high-speed car crash in Franklin County claimed the lives of four Pennsylvania residents and left a fifth person injured, according to a recent article on PennLive.com. The driver of the car lost control after passing another vehicle, and the car careened through several front yards before crashing into a fire hydrant, a tree, and the front porch of a house. At the time, the car was carrying three young men and [...]

Three men in their twenties, all from Philadelphia, were killed on June 25, 2010 when the vehicle in which they were traveling went off the Atlantic City Expressway in NJ and hit several trees, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. The three men were killed after their vehicle went out of control on the expressway. It left the roadway and struck trees in the center median. The three men were pronounced dead a [...]