Peter has worked on numerous cases involving GM C and K pickups with side-mounted gas tanks. Peter was instrumental in uncovering the grim truth about this dangerous truck design. The trucks were built and sold from 1973 - 1987. The vulnerable side-saddle gas tanks rupture and leak in side and some frontal collisions. Thousands of people have been burned in collisions involving these pickups.
The victims of these fires aren't always in the pickup. Peter has worked on three cases where people were burned after their car struck the side of a GM pickup.
Cases that Peter has handled or helped with include:
L. and L. v. General Motors. (Resolved in 2007) Peter worked with two Oregon attorneys to resolve the case of a man and woman who were severely burned when the 1978 GM pickup they were riding in was hit on the side by a car. The collision ruptured the side-mounted gas tank on the pickup. (Later, Peter helped represent the driver of the pickup in a separate action.)
H. v. General Motors. (Resolved 2006) An Oregon teenager was horribly burned after his GM side-saddle pickup struck the guardrail of a bridge.
T. v. General Motors. (Resolved 2005) A California woman was burned when a GM pickup blew a stop sign and pulled in front of her daughter's stationwagon.
F. v. General Motors. Peter helped represent an Illinois man burned to death when his truck struck the side of a GM pickup.
S. v. General Motors. An elderly man from Southern California was badly burned when a small Honda struck the side of his GM pickup. Peter helped him resolve his case against GM.
B. v. GM. A California man was burned to death when his car struck the side of a GM flatbed truck after it missed a stopsign and pulled in front of his vehicle.
K. v GM. An Oregon grandmother was badly burned and her granddaughter was burned to death when their car struck a GM pickup in the oncoming lane made a left turn in front of their car.
W. v. GM. A Washington lumberjack was badly burned when his pickup was struck by an oncoming driver.
W. v. GM. A Puyallup, Washington man was burned when his 1978 GM pickup was struck by a drunk driver.
Peter has worked on numerous cases involving GM C and K pickups with side-mounted gas tanks. Peter was instrumental in uncovering the grim truth about this dangerous truck design. The trucks were built and sold from 1973 - 1987. The vulnerable side-saddle gas tanks rupture and leak in side and some frontal collisions. Thousands of people have been burned in collisions involving these pickups.