Nowadays, people are looking for more than one new feature in cars, in this direction almost every luxury car today has a soft close door mechanism, but this luxury feature has led to a lawsuit for German automaker Mercedes Benz. Actually, the company has been sued for cutting off a man’s thumb by this feature of Mercedes. In Arizona, the chief deputy of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, Richard J. A lawsuit filed by Kastigar states that the Mercedes Benz GLE450 SUV owned by his family has caused a split in his thumb.
In the lawsuit, the sheriff alleged that one day last year when he got down from his SUV in his garage, his back was towards the GLE, but somehow his thumb was inside the door column near the B-pillar, and in the meantime Soft Close the automobile started automatically and in the process the thumb was crushed in the door.
According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff’s thumb injury required immediate surgery to remove the protruding distal phalanx bone as well as the nerves and, according to the complaint, he lost at least $500,000 in salary as a result of the thumb damage, according to the complaint. Will happen.
A statement from the lawsuit read, “A proud and independent man who protects the public from harm, now relies on his wife to go to the bathroom, shower, brush her teeth, get dressed, and button her shirt.” Help him do it.” Says lawsuit. “He has great difficulties holding a pen, feeding himself, tying his shoes, using tools, and helping with chores such as doing laundry and washing dishes around the house.”
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It does not end there, the plaintiffs in the lawsuit say that Mercedes-Benz should use safety sensors in the doors to avoid such incidents. However, if it is not agreed upon, they should not market this soft-close feature as these door mechanisms are a potential hazard to customers and will cause more damage in the future. According to reports, this is not the first time such a case has come to the fore. This is a very common type of issue that has troubled a lot of luxury car makers in the past.
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