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After a two-year federal investigation of 4.5 million pickup trucks, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena accused General Motors of knowingly manufacturing defective trucks with exposed fuel tanks that can explode and burn in side-impact crashes. The Department of Transportation has scheduled a public hearing in December to decide whether the nation's No. 1 automaker should recall its line of pickups built between 1973 and 1987. In a 1988 redesign, GM moved the fuel tanks inside the trucks' protective body frames...
...feds came down hard against the nation's top automaker, targeting General Motors' controversial full-size pickup. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced today that C and K series models of that truck made from 1973 to 1987 pose an unreasonable safety risk. The location of the gas tank outside of the main-body rails makes the vehicles vulnerable to fires in side-impact collisions, officials say. The finding could lead to a government-ordered recall later this year of the 4.5 to 6.3 million such vehicles that are on the road, which could cost $1 billion. The government action...
...Though the black box of voice recordings from the crew was recovered, it revealed only uninformative cries of "Oh, God" and "Oh, s---" and the words "traffic emergency" followed by a scream. "We're all very much at a loss to explain this accident," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, who hurried to the scene...
...hours later, the L.A. city fire department can finally save someone. Firemen extract maintenance worker Salvador Pena from a street sweeper he was operating in the now collapsed garage of the Northridge mall, not far from the Meadows. Some slabs of concrete are airlifted off him; others are pushed away with a huge inflatable bladder. The process takes about four hours; then he is free. His legs are crushed, but he will survive. Says a fireman: "It feels so good...
Transportation Secretary Federico Pena spent Thursday in Baltimore, Maryland, touting the benefits NAFTA would shower on a dredging-equipment firm that exports 80% of its products overseas. Not coincidentally, Pena spoke not far from the home district of Representative Ben Cardin, another Democrat who remains undecided about NAFTA...