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...year-old girl, Jessica LeAnn Taylor, a junior high school cheerleader who died in a car accident Oct. 16, 1998, on the way to a homecoming football game outside her hometown of Mexia, Texas. A friend of Taylor's mother was driving that day, and as the tread on the left-rear Firestone ATX tire allegedly peeled off like a banana, the Ford Explorer SUV veered left and rolled over...
...number of insurance claims for the models. (This year, according to a State Farm document examined by TIME, the number of cases has been even higher, with 12 appearing in the first four months alone.) In March, though, 30 to 40 more complaints flooded in after a report on tread-separation accidents aired on Houston TV station KHOU...
...nasty mark. Frightened by the news, Americans by the hundreds of thousands have put themselves on waiting lists for tire replacements. Auto-repair shops have had to field countless calls from panicked customers clamoring to have their tires checked, worried about every tiny shred, every tear on the tread. Nothing last week allayed those fears. On Thursday NHTSA raised to 88 the total deaths attributed to the defective tires and the number of injuries to 250. Meanwhile, Firestone's voluntary recall has so far replaced only close to 2 million of the 6.5 million defective tires that it believes...
...fine line that has mostly kept him out of trouble. The high quotient of religion in Lieberman's stump act, meanwhile, has civil libertarians worrying about separation and Christian conservatives wondering if Lieberman, as a Jew, is getting a free ride where Baptists fear to tread...
...still be trusted. But first they will have to contend with scenes of crumpled SUVs and shredded tires and with accident victims like Dr. Rene Brignoni, a Florida oral surgeon who survived an Explorer rollover with a broken nose and severe lacerations last April when, he alleges, the tread suddenly peeled away from a Firestone tire. Brignoni is suing Firestone, charging that the company behaved irresponsibly. Says he: "I feel very fortunate to be alive, and I feel extremely sorry for families who have lost relatives or have been seriously injured." For Firestone, overcoming the images of such tragedies will...