GM Ignition Switch Death Toll Jumps To 74 - Will It Go Triple Digits?

The death toll from General Motors' defective ignition switch has risen by seven more fatalities from a week earlier to 74, the administrator of GM's compensation fund said today.

The office of attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who is overseeing victim compensation on GM's behalf, had approved 74 death claims and 126 injury claims as of March 20, according to an update released today.

The deadline for victims to file claims was Jan. 31. Feinberg's office is expected to continue processing them until late spring or early summer.

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Vette71 - 3/24/2015 3:07:04 PM

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#009 you do have a bee under your bonnet about this and the air bag situation. Give it a rest. These are both very unfortunate situations, but given the sheer number of vehicles out with these potential defects there it is a very small % risk. DUI, texting, poor road design,etc. are much more likely causes of auto deaths. More people died this morning in a plane crash. Should we stop flying? Sue the airline, plane manufacturer, government regulators etc.? Autospies ought to stick to what is going on in the enthusiast car world.

800over - 3/25/2015 1:39:49 PM

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The difference is that GM new about the defect....and didn't change anything to fix it.

TomM - 3/24/2015 5:34:35 PM

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Agent #009 - Last year more than 12,000 people lost their lives in accidents where SPEED was a contributing factor - YET - I have yet to see YOU suggest one thing to REDUCE the speed at which cars may actually run. WE have the technology NOW - to govern the speed of cars from the outside to prevent speeding - and Yet - I hear NOTHING from YOU about it. Why is that? Yet - what we do see is higher and higher powered cars - capable of speeding well past what is even safe and prudent on highways with no speed limit.

Why no rants against the speeds that Porsche - Ferrari - Bmw - Mercedes - Audi - and even the Corvette - Mustang and Camaro - which would actually REDUCE deaths on the highways by far more.

In addition - Bmw, Mercedes, and Chrysler have recalled cars for the same problem - faulty ignition switches- yet your tirades are almost exclusively against GM so far.

The fact appears that YOU really do not care about the safety of cars - you just like to roast General Motors whenever you can - making your posts dubious at best. So they (the posts) and YOU can be ignored

skytop - 3/24/2015 7:14:45 PM

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GM killed them ALL with their defective design!