FCA starts investigation after the fatal accident of Star Trek actor

Posted on 20-06-2016 at 19:03 by RubenPriest – 92 Comments”

An ill-fated accident put an end to the life of the 27-year-old actor.

The Star Trek actor was hit by his own Jeep Cherokee from model year 2015. The automatic transmission was in neutral, causing the Cherokee began to roll in the direction of the actor. Yelchin was at that moment in his mailbox, he was trapped.

The Jeep Cherokee was recently recalled (PDF) by the FCA because of a possible defect with the automatic transmission. Similar incidents such as this were in fact already previously occurred. The Cherokee of Yelchin was as a result of this recall taken care of and the problem had been fixed. The fact that the car is not in its P-mode was is FCA in this case, so do not blame to take. The accident had fatal consequences.

There is currently research place as a result of his death and the FCA story will be included in the case. Before the recall was performed, there were hundreds of crashes are the result of the technical malfunction. This fell a total of 41 people injured, but no deaths. FCA has told Reuters indicated itself also to launch an investigation following the incident.