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Our country has rules.\u00a0It is against the law for one person to walk up to another and kill him in order to take the money out of… Continue reading Jeep Gas Tank Fires: Lawsuit Filed<\/span><\/a>","datePublished":"2018-07-19","dateModified":"2026-04-17","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/blog\/author\/matt-kahn\/#Person","name":"Matt Kahn","url":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/blog\/author\/matt-kahn\/","identifier":25,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e04949bdf1f2184cdeab337bb39535a4c17c4beb3ad3cd47e5524b20b38274a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e04949bdf1f2184cdeab337bb39535a4c17c4beb3ad3cd47e5524b20b38274a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Butler Kahn","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Butler-Law-Firm-Logo.png","url":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Butler-Law-Firm-Logo.png","width":210,"height":93}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jeep-liberty-with-rear-gas-tank-burns-in-WV.png","url":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jeep-liberty-with-rear-gas-tank-burns-in-WV.png","height":611,"width":671},"url":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/blog\/jeep-gas-tank-fires-lawsuit-filed\/","video":[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"VideoObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTaNltIyQM0#VideoObject","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTaNltIyQM0","name":"Jeep Fires & Explosions: Jeep Liberty, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Cherokee","description":"Jeep manufactured and sold millions of SUVs with gas tanks located in the extreme rear of the vehicle, behind the rear axle and right next to the plastic \"bumper.\" These gas tanks are exposed to rear impact, like the gas tanks on the 1970s-era Ford Pinto. When these Jeeps get rear-ended, the plastic gas tanks can rupture, spraying gasoline on the roadway and on both vehicles. If the gasoline catches fire and the people can't escape in time, the occupants the Jeep and the other vehicle can burn to death.\n\nThis has happened over and over again.\n\nIn 2013, the company that owns Jeep, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (\"FCA\"), finally agreed to recall at least some of these Jeeps with exposed gas tanks. But FCA did not buy the Jeeps back or move the gas tank. Instead, FCA offered free trailer hitches to some Jeep owners. That did not fix the problem\u2014and FCA knew that it wouldn't. Just two years before, an FCA executive had testified under oath that \"the tow package does not protect the tank.\"\n\nThe Jeeps with exposed gas tanks are the 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty, 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee, 1993-2001 Jeep Cherokee, and 1987-2007 Jeep Wrangler. Millions of these Jeeps remain on the road.\n\nFCA has refused to take any further action. FCA claims that thesee Jeeps are \"absolutely safe.\" In our pending litigation against FCA over these Jeep fires, FCA denies any wrongdoing. 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Killing another person for money is wrong. A person caught doing it would face life in prison or, in some states, the death penalty.The same rule\u00a0should\u00a0apply to companies. Automobile manufacturers have known for decades that putting a gas tank next to the rear bumper kills people. The whole automotive industry learned that in the 1970s with the notorious Ford Pinto. When a Pinto, which had a rear-mounted gas tank, got struck from behind, the Pinto\u2019s tank would get crushed. Gasoline would leak. Fires and explosions followed. After the Pintos repeatedly caught fire and burned people, most automakers stopped putting gas tanks in the extreme rear of their vehicles. Of course, it was easier for automakers to place gas tanks in the extreme rear\u2014there\u2019s a big empty space behind the rear axle, and it\u2019s easy to put a tank there. But rear-mounted tanks were deadly, and people were burning to death. So most automakers stopped putting gas tanks next to the bumper.This excerpt comes from Chrysler’s sales brochure for the 1998 Ram Cargo Van.For the most part, that included Chrysler (now known as \u201cFiat Chrysler Automobiles\u201d or \u201cFCA\u201d).\u00a0In 1978, a Chrysler engineer circulated a memorandum around the company that discussed the Ford Pinto and concluded that \u201clocating the fuel tank ahead of the rear wheels appears to provide good protection for the tank.\u201d\u00a0 By 1985, Chrysler\u2019s \u201cDodge\u201d brand of vehicles was advertising that all but one of its cars had the gas tank located \u201cforward of the rear suspension . . . giving it protection\u201d in a rear impact. In the 1990s, Chrysler was advertising in its brochures that its gas tanks were \u201cmounted for impact protection ahead of the rear suspension\u201d or \u201cmounted ahead of the rear axle for protection.\u201dBut Chrysler made an awful exception.Rear-Mounted Gas Tanks in Jeep Grand Cherokees, Cherokees, and LibertiesIn millions of vehicles sold under its \u201cJeep\u201d brand,\u00a0Chrysler placed the gas tank behind the rear axle\u2014right where it had been in the Ford Pinto. In the 1993-2001 Jeep Cherokees, 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokees, and 2002-2007 Jeep Liberties, Chrysler mounted the gas tanks\u00a0eleven inches\u00a0from the extreme rear of the vehicles and left the tanks hanging down\u00a0six inches below everything else. Other manufacturers had long since stopped putting gas tanks there. Chrysler\u2019s design put customers and their families at risk.\u00a0 One of Chrysler\u2019s own engineers would later admit under cross-examination that these Jeep gas tanks were \u201cvulnerable to rear impact.\u201dThe rear-mounted gas tanks are circled in red on these Jeep Grand Cherokees, Cherokees, and Liberties.Fires and Explosions in Rear-Tank JeepsPeople were dying in these Jeeps, and Chrysler knew it. Chrysler\u2019s own customers were sending warnings to the company. One woman whose daughter was nearly killed wrote Chrysler a letter in 1998 warning that after a rear impact, her daughter\u2019s Jeep \u201cwas on fire because the gas tank had been hit.\u201d She wrote that she could not imagine what would happen to a person who \u201ccould not get out of the car within moments.\u201d Many others called Chrysler and warned the company about fires and leaking fuel. Chrysler\u2019s internal records\u00a0prove\u00a0that Chrysler received these calls and knew exactly what was happening with its Jeeps.Not everyone caught inside a burning Jeep was able to escape. Many of Chrysler\u2019s customers or their family members burned to death inside. \u00a0When that happened, lawsuits were sometimes filed.\u00a0 Chrysler got sued over and over. For decades, Chrysler settled every one of those cases quietly outside of court, always insisting on confidentiality.Only one rear-tank Jeep fire case ever went to trial. That trial occurred in 2015 in Bainbridge, Georgia when a family represented by our firm and Butler, Wooten & Peak refused to take Chrysler\u2019s settlement offer. The jury found that Chrysler \u201cacted with reckless or wanton disregard for human life\u201d and returned a verdict of $150 million. The Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the trial court\u2019s judgment.A Jeep Liberty with a rear-mounted gas tank burns after a rear impact in West Virginia.What FCA Knew About Rear-Tank Jeep Fires Chrysler knew that the rear of its Jeeps would get crushed in a rear impact. In Chrysler\u2019s internal rear-impact crash tests, the rear-most twenty-four inches of the Jeeps were getting crushed\u2014so in 2000, Chrysler told its crash test engineers to stop putting test instruments in that crush zone because the expensive instruments were getting smashed. Losing the test instruments was costing the company money. Chrysler showed less concern for its customers. Although Chrysler saved its test instruments by removing them from the rear-most twenty-four inches of its Jeeps, it left the gas tank only eleven inches from the rear. The results were obvious: smashed, leaking tanks on America\u2019s roadways.Chrysler knew that the rear of its Jeeps would get crushed in a rear impact. In Chrysler\u2019s internal rear-impact crash tests, the rear-most twenty-four inches of the Jeeps were getting crushed\u2014so in 2000, Chrysler told its crash test engineers to stop putting test instruments in that crush zone because the expensive instruments were getting smashed. Losing the test instruments was costing the company money. Chrysler showed less concern for its customers. Although Chrysler saved its test instruments by removing them from the rear-most twenty-four inches of its Jeeps, it left the gas tank only eleven inches from the rear. The results were obvious: smashed, leaking tanks on America\u2019s roadways.In 2013, at the\u00a0urging of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, the federal government\u00a0asked FCA to recall these rear-tank Jeeps. FCA refused. After the government warned FCA that the rear-tank Jeeps \u201ccontained defects related to motor vehicle safety\u201d and \u201cpresent[ed] an unreasonable risk,\u201d FCA\u2019s CEO and Chairman, Sergio Marchionne, sought a secret meeting with top political government officials. Marchionne met with two political appointees\u2014U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and NHTSA Administrator David Strickland\u2014at Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport. The meeting was not announced. No records were kept. Nobody else was allowed in the room. In that secret meeting, Marchionne and the high-ranking political officials worked out a deal. Instead of doing a full recall or buying back the Jeeps, FCA would do something less expensive.FCA would provide free trailer hitch receivers on certain rear-tank Jeeps.Safety advocates were furious. Although Marchionne may not have mentioned it at the secret meeting, FCA knew that trailer hitch receivers weren\u2019t enough to protect the Jeeps\u2019 rear-mounted gas tanks. Not nearly enough. In fact, in a rear impact, the hitch receiver could buckle or fold, then get driven into the rear-mounted gas tank like a spear. That would pierce the tank. A pierced tank would lead to leaking gasoline. Leaking gasoline would lead to fires and explosions. FCA knew that, even if the government didn\u2019t. The President of Chrysler International had testified under oath in 2011, two years before the secret O\u2019Hare meeting, that \u201cthe tow package does not protect the tank.\u201dChrysler knew the truth.In many states, including Georgia, manufacturers have a duty to warn customers about a product (like an automobile) that the manufacturer knows is dangerous. The manufacturer should usually warn the customer before it sells the product. If the manufacturer learns than the product is dangerous\u00a0after\u00a0selling it, then the manufacturer should issue a warning to the customer at that time.Chrysler never warned a single customer about the dangers of its rear-mounted gas tanks. Chrysler never warned a single customer about the dangers of a hitch receiver mounted on such a vehicle.\u00a0 Not before a sale, and not after. Instead, Chrysler and FCA did the opposite. Instead of warning people, Sergio Marchionne\u2014who was getting paid over $50 million per year by FCA\u2014repeatedly told FCA\u2019s customers that its rear-tank Jeeps were \u201cabsolutely safe.\u201d That was a lie.Chrysler was killing people in order to save money.And it still is.Another Jeep Liberty ExplodesOn October 20, 2017, it happened again. The driver of a 2004 Jeep Liberty\u2014who was a nurse, a wife, and a mother of two sons\u2014was sitting at a traffic light in her 2004 Jeep Liberty in Hamilton, Ohio.\u00a0 Her Jeep had the trailer hitch receiver. A truck struck her Jeep in the rear. The hitch receiver buckled and knifed forward.\u00a0It pierced the tank. Gasoline leaked. The Jeep exploded.\u00a0 Two nearby drivers jumped out of their vehicles and rushed toward her burning Jeep. They could not save her.She burned to death.This has to stop.The Jeep after the rear tank burst and the Jeep burned.Our firm, along with Butler, Wooten & Peak, represents the decedent\u2019s family. This week we filed the family\u2019s case against FCA in the Court of Common Pleas in Hamilton, Ohio. The official Complaint is available here, and the Daily Report\u2019s article about the filing is available\u00a0here. The Complaint shows excerpts from the internal FCA documents proving that FCA knew about the dangers and hid them. It identifies more than sixty other collisions known to us (there are almost certainly more) in which rear-mounted Jeep tanks leaked after rear impact.When FCA sold these rear-tank Jeeps, the executives at FCA decided that instead of moving gas tanks forward of the rear axle, they would let people die. By refusing to buy back these dangerous rear-tank Jeeps and instead allowing them to stay on the road, FCA\u2019s executives are currently\u00a0deciding to save money and allow\u00a0more\u00a0people to burn.FCA\u2019s customers, including the family that we represent, deserved better. If an individual person killed people for money, that person would get a life sentence or worse. All FCA\u2019s executives got was another paycheck.Our law firms have already held FCA accountable in court once. Apparently, that wasn\u2019t enough.The underside of the Jeep Liberty shows that the trailer hitch receiver bent and punctured the rear-mounted gas tank like a spear."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/blog\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jeep Gas Tank Fires: Lawsuit Filed","item":"https:\/\/butlerfirm.com\/blog\/jeep-gas-tank-fires-lawsuit-filed\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]