Lawsuit - M3 is a rollover risk?? WTF???

Kirby · Oct 7, 2004

Aaaarrghhhh!!! Friggin' ambulance chasing lawyers!!!! [boxface]

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa

A U-S District Court in Cedar Rapids has found the design of a B-M-W is not responsible for injuries a man suffered in a rollover crash.

Thirty-five-year old Marc Brey of Omaha, Nebraska was traveling east on Interstate 80 near Williamsburg, Iowa, in July 1999 when he lost control of his 1998 B-M-W M-3 in a rainstorm. His car collided with a westbound vehicle.

Court records say Brey's neck was broken and he still requires round-the-clock assistance.

He was seeking 28 (m) million dollars from B-M-W of North America. He says the design of the roof caused more serious injuries.

An attorney for the car maker says the roof supports did not cave in until after the two vehicle collided, and by that time Brey's neck was already broken.

bahnstormer · Oct 7, 2004

stupid hicks

shit like this forces bmw to pay lawyers crazy money which should
be going into R&D [:(!]

MrElussive · Oct 7, 2004

Uhh, he must have been going fast or doing something wrong to lose control and cross over onto the other side of the highway. The outcome of the accident is very unfortunate though. [:(]

bmw046series · Oct 7, 2004

He probably lost control because he burnt his tires.

///M SPEED · Oct 8, 2004

Kirby, what happened to BMWfanatic and Hitman? I must have missed what went on there while I was gone for over 6 months/1 year.....

Puskov, happy that fool is gone.....and his sister

Kirby · Oct 8, 2004

///M SPEED said:

Hehe, my Halloween "tribute" to colorful screen names that "passed on" this year.

BMWFanatic posted a lot of controversial, weird, wacky, or goofy threads. I don't think he was banned, but he took some flack over a number of his posts, and one day he got really mad and quit the board. As I recall he then came back under a new name for a few days, but it was so obvious by the type of post who it really was.

Hitman created a whole bunch of similar issues, and made some offensive posts, insults, etc. Hitman was also hitting on Push's sister on the board, as I recall. Started to resemble an MTV "reality" show, so to speak. I'm pretty sure he was banned at least temporarily, and I think permanently.

MrElussive · Oct 8, 2004

Lol, Kirby that avatar is hilarious.

Btw, I think just about every guy on this forum was hitting on Push's sister and we did a pretty good job, too.

///M SPEED · Oct 8, 2004

Kirby said:

I remember some of that now. Thanks for the refresher! Love the avatar, it's great....

P.S.

Not I! She was to damn young and immature just like her brother. She needed to settle down and hang with kids her age. She is gunning for a world of trouble if she continues down the same road she was on..... What a shame...

Sorry for the hijack Kirby...

poboyis · Oct 8, 2004

i drive that highway at least 3 times a year, he had to do something really stupid to flip hit car there. the entire way across iowa, it is flat and no sharp curves at all, although the median is like a big didtch that is about 3 feet deep and 20 or so feet wide. probably wasnt paying attention, almost nailed the car in front of him, jerked the wheel, went into the median, and slid into oncomming traffic. speed limit is 65, average speed 75-85, not usually busy either, especially where he was at. damn, hill-billy

Bryan330i · Oct 8, 2004

So now it needs a rollover warning label???

Remember back in the 80’s when Porsche was sued by a number of people because the cars had too much power and therefore they were inherently dangerous?

When people have a loss they seem to always want to blame someone.

flashinthepan · Oct 10, 2004

Rollover ??

I cant even get my M3 to give an inch upon cornering ? This boy must have been flying with a death wish [bmwdance]

Militant-Grunt · Oct 10, 2004

flashinthepan said:

Prolly flying at 140mph..

theBMWenthusiast · Oct 10, 2004

Militant-Grunt said:

probably and probably just wanted to see if he could get that money out of BMW

tool fan · Oct 12, 2004

theBMWenthusiast said:

Bit extreme don't you think....if that was the case....what a backfire. DAMN

Who was Push's sister? was this before my time?

Bryan330i · Oct 12, 2004

tool fan said:

They have been gone for a while, I think late last year.

Their parents were friggin idiots and the two of them grew up with no support. He said things to me that pissed me off but I still think the guy has some real potential and if he gets his drive focused in the right direction I think he will no doubt become an entrepreneurial success.

Average Jae · Oct 12, 2004

i suppose flying down the highway, jumping the median and running into oncoming traffic could induce a car to rollover. well what worked for the coffee idiot didn't work for the iowa idiot.. i can't even feel sorry for him, even if he needs care 24/7 around the clock..

as for push and guessgirl.. it was funny watching bunch of bmw nerds hit on a 14 year old [:p]

that said, i couldn't tell she was 14 from the pics until she or push mentioned it. anyway, Kirby, that avatar rules!!

Chesty Bonds · Oct 12, 2004

What a f***ing c***sucker! Blaming BMW for his own stupid mistakes...

theBMWenthusiast · Oct 12, 2004

Chesty Bonds said:

exactly, i mean if your car flips over then you had to be doing something wrong in the first place, i mean one rule of driving is "go as fast as you can go safetly" and if he would have flipped over in bad conditions he must have been doing something wrong in the first place, be glad that BMW has cars that dont cave in and hes alive...

HornyHornet · Oct 12, 2004

Suing BMW for his own stupidity? Kinda like smokers suing Tabacco Cos. because they got cancer when the box has warnings written all over it. I live in Omaha and have driven both ways on I80. Pure flat and straight roads. He must have been really flying to wreck like that.
Dumb ass!! messed up a perfectly good ride.

theBMWenthusiast · Oct 12, 2004

HornyHornet said:

he he nice nice analogy

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