Would It Be Possible to Sue a Car Manufacturer if a Design Flaw is the Reason I was Crashed Into?
Location: Florida
As the title states, I'm curious to know whether or not it's feasible to sue a car manufacturing company if a design flaw lead to me being crashed into. For context, I'm currently getting over a rear ending accident on the highway that could have been significantly worse if it had occurred at any higher speeds. I was driving a Mazda Miata, a car still in production, getting onto the highway where I was almost immediately rear ended 3 times by a 2023 GMC Sierra, another car still in production. Upon pulling over, the driver was immediately confused that he had hit a driver, repeatedly saying that he couldn't see me at all. Beyond that, it would appear that no sensors in the car triggered at all to alert him to my presence either.
Seeing our cars parked next to each other afterwards, it was a wonder that he didn't do any immediate serious damage to me. The hood of his car alone stood multiple feet above the roof of my car, if I was on a motorcycle instead I don't think I'd be here to make this post. Beyond just that, I'm grateful this truck was on the highway and not on a residential area, because if he couldn't see my car at all then surely he couldn't see a child on the street either.
So back to my title question, could I potentially sue GMC for designing this car that way? I would consider it a very serious design flaw to have a blind spot immediately in front of the car that makes the driver oblivious to an entire other vehicle in front of it. Additionally, that no sensors went off at all in a two year old truck to alert him that he was hitting a car is incredibly concerning, after the crash he had told me that he thought his tires had popped and was checking his PSI through the cars information system in between impacts. So the car can show him his PSI but not that he's hitting someone?
I'm also not the only one having reported an incident like this regarding this kind of truck, nor the only person this has happened to with a GMC Sierra either. This seems to be a genuine safety hazard that is affecting multiple people across the country yet there doesn't seem to be any litigation in regards to this happening. Is this because it's not something that can be sued over or is it simply not worth it?
Posted May 15, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC