The family of a Montgomery man killed in a 2022 auto crash has received a $2.7 million settlement over defective airbags they say led to his death.
has received a $2.7 million settlement over defective airbags they say led to his death.
Montgomery police and fire medics were dispatched at 9:20 p.m. that day to a report of a single-vehicle crash in the 4100 block of Piedmont Drive. They arrived to find Johnson unresponsive inside his vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene. It was later determined his vehicle left the roadway and crashed into multiple mailboxes.
The attorneys for Johnson’s family argued that evidence showed the driver’s side airbag inflator ruptured violently during the accident, much like a hand grenade. That propelled shrapnel from the metal inflator towards Johnson.the largest and most complex in the nation’s history, affects 19 auto manufacturers and more than 200 models across several years of production.
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