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Are Firestone Tires safe at this point
Title: Are Firestone Tires safe at this point
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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Are Firestone Tires safe at this point
Agency Missed Early Tire Warnings
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In some Sept. 12 editions, a headline in the Business section misstated how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration handled some complaints about Firestone tires. The headline should have said, as it did in other editions, that the agency missed the complaints.
By Cindy Skrzycki
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday , September 12, 2000 ; Page E01
On Nov. 30, 1998, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration received a letter from a Ford Explorer owner who …showed first 75 words of 2354 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2354 total…pressure provide adequate safety margin to guard against damage caused by underinflation and overloading?"
Lampe said Firestone now recommends that tires on Explorers be inflated to 30 psi. Firestone officials said they made that recommendation recently, before the recall was announced Aug. 9. Ford officials say it was only a day or so before the recall.
Staff writers Greg Schneider and Cindy Skrzycki contributed to this report.
Bibliography
www.nbc.com/firestonetires
www.cnn.com/accidentson firestone
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