A tire dealer is named in a wrongful death lawsuit arising out of a fatal hydroplaning accident in Texas in 2009.  The victim had just purchased two new tires for the front of her Chrysler Sebring.  The rear tires remained worn out.  As she was driving during a rainstorm, she lost control of her car, and crashed into a school bus.

Her children claim in the lawsuit that the tire dealer, South Gateway Tire Company should have warned her that having two new tires installed in the front and leaving the rear tires unchanged, could increase the risk of an accident.  The children claim in the lawsuit that the dealer should have warned the woman that having two new tires in the front and leaving the old tires at the back, could increase the risk of hydroplaning.

The lawsuit names South Gateway Tire Company and its parent company Dunlap and Kyle Company.

I’m willing to bet that most people in Houston don’t know how dangerous it is to change just two tires in the front, and leave your old rear tires unchanged.  That’s why it’s the duty of tire dealers/tire manufacture/other parties to inform customers about the danger they may be when they drive like this.

Vuk Vujasinovic is a Houston product liability lawyer, representing victims who have been injured from the use of defective products in Texas and nationwide.

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Vuk Vujasinovic is a Board Certified Houston personal injury attorney who practices Houston auto accident and other personal injury cases.

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