No NHTSA employees have been fired or disciplined even though it seems that GM’s ignition switch recall complaint data was handled improperly, The Detroit News said.
In 2007, despite a senior agency official pointing out that four of the accidents of GM cars led to death due to the non-deployment of airbag, the NHTSA decided not to open an investigation.
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Again in 2010, the agency decided that there was not enough evidence to open a formal probe, even though it had teams investigate three different crashes in small GM cars.
Transportation secretary Anthony Foxx said: “We and I are willing to check our own math here. I’ve asked our inspector general to go through and do an after-action on this GM situation to see if there is anything we didn’t do that we should have done. We will learn from that report, and until that time we have our team intact.”
NHTSA administrator David Friedman and Foxx said there was not enough evidence for the agency to launch a formal investigation.
