Subpoena Filed Against Toyota over Faulty Steering Components
A grand jury has filed a subpoena against Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. to get access to documents regarding defects in the steering components of certain Toyota models. The documents the grand jury subpoenaed were unrelated to other incidents of safety investigations with the sudden acceleration of certain vehicles.
According to the report, the subpoena was issued 3 weeks ago on June 29th and requested documents related to broken or otherwise malfunctioning relay rods for the vehicles. The malfunctioning relay rods caused either partial or total loss of control in steering. An incident with the relay rods occurred as far back as 2004 in Japan which injured five people. In an unrelated incident, in April Toyota was forced to pay $16.4 million in fines because they failed to announce a recall of gas pedals that were sticking.
Toyota has faced a huge amount of scrutiny because of the issues that have been increasing with many of their vehicles. This subpoena is not the first that Toyota has faced according to this report. In addition, Toyota has also faced several recalls and product liability lawsuits since September because of many defects and malfunctions with their vehicles.
