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Tuesday a jury awarded a woman paralyzed in a rollover accident involving her Ford Explorer $122 million in damages.
Ford plans to appeal the decision and blamed the driver for trying to avoid a piece of metal in the road. The automaker
also said any SUV would’ve rolled over in a similar circumstance. The Explorer’s crash test results from the National
Highway Safety Administration gets top marks in every category besides “rollover resistance” where it gets a mid-level
grade. A quick comparison shows almost all similar sized & priced SUVs have identical grades when it comes to
rollover.