Ford Faces $1.7 Billion Verdict in Fatal Rollover

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After jury decision on Friday in a case involving 2014 rollover of a Ford F-250 pickup truck that left two people dead, Ford Motor Co. is now subject to a maximum $1.7 billion in punitive penalties.

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The Gwinnett County jury found that Ford should pay damages for selling 5.2 million Super Duty vehicles with dangerously thin roofs that might crush occupants in a rollover accident.

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Melvin and Voncile Hill, a Georgia couple, were driving a 2002 Ford F-250 Super Duty truck from their farm when the right front tyre blew out and the truck toppled over

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The couple filed the lawsuit on behalf of themselves. Inside the truck, the Hills were crushed.

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Ford will appeal the decision, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. "While our thoughts go out to the Hill family, we don't believe the finding is justified by the evidence."

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The $1.7 billion award is reportedly one of Georgia's largest verdicts in history and is disproportionately enormous for an automaker to be named in an accident-related lawsuit.

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