First Lawsuit Against Tire Manufacturer in Fatal Bus Crash

The lawsuit is the first case resulting from the accident to name Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations

The Ammons Law Firm, LLP has joined the attorneys in the New Mexico office of Durham, Pittard & Spalding, LLP to seek justice for three people harmed when a defective tire caused a fatal New Mexico bus accident..

The lawsuit is the first case resulting from the accident to name Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC as a defendant. It alleges that Bridgestone’s negligence produced a defective tire that caused the fatal crash.

The lawsuit claims that several failures on the part of Bridgestone, including a failure to design the tire with the components necessary to prevent tread separation, even though Bridgestone and other tire manufacturers already use these components on other tires. It also alleges that the manufacturing process that created the tire was defective.

The lawsuit, filed in the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, alleges that various defects in the tire’s development, design and manufacture led to the separation of the tread from the rest of the tire.

In a CBS News article published a few days after the accident, the truck’s driver said that the truck “locked up” shortly after the tire blew. The tread separation caused the driver to lose control of the truck, which jackknifed across the I-40 median and into oncoming traffic, striking the Greyhound bus.

The accident garnered attention from national news media outlets, including CBS and the Chicago Tribune. While other lawsuits have been filed as a result of the crash, these cases do not focus on Bridgestone.

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