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ANCHOR: A Carlsbad family has settled a lawsuit against the Ford Motor Company for $6 million. The case was an important and tragic one. It dealt with seatbelts and a terrible loss for James Miller's family. Now that family hopes to put the money to good use. Lorraine Kimel joins us now with a report on their plans.
LORRAINE KIMEL: Stan, this is a story about what is said to be the biggest product liability settlement of its kind in U.S. history. It is the story about seatbelts and it is a story of how one family is putting aside its sorrow to help others avoid what they have had to go through.
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LORRAINE KIMEL: Richard Miller is 12 and a survivor. He enjoys his life, a life he lives in a wheelchair without the most important person to him, his twin brother James.
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LORRAINE KIMEL: It was a Sunday in November 1988. The Miller family in their Ford Escort was in a head-on collision on Rancho Santa Fe Road in Carlsbad. Jim Miller and his wife Patricia in the front, both protected by shoulder harness seatbelts, survived with injuries.
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LORRAINE KIMEL: Their son Jim, restrained in the back seat with only a lap belt, died.
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LORRAINE KIMEL: His twin brother Richard, also in the back, also with only a lap belt, had his spine broken.
JIM MILLER: Had they been wearing upper torso shoulder harnesses.
PATRICIA MILLER: They'd both be alive and walking today. Both of them.
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LORRAINE KIMEL: The $6 million will pay Richard's lifetime of medical costs. And about that, the Millers are pleased. They are not pleased though that Ford has refused to let millions and millions of drivers know that their pre-1990 cars can have shoulder restraints put in them at an affordable cost.
JIM MILLER: They've got the technology. They know the damage that lap belts can cause, and yet for some obscure reason they haven't come forth and said you need these belts and we will provide them. And we feel that that's their duty to do that.
LORRAINE KIMEL: Pat Miller says her family's lives have been devastated by the accident.
PATRICIA MILLER: The laughter isn't there. And, there's an emptiness inside of you that will stay for the rest of our lives.
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PATRICIA MILLER: Richard had been really courageous throughout all of this. He's kept us going.
LORRAINE KIMEL: Richard and now their crusade to save other lives. The Miller's attorney, Craig McClellan, says Ford was forced by European law to put the rear seat shoulder harnesses in all of its European built Ford Escorts, but never offered them here in the U.S. market because of the cost, $12 per belt. The rear seat shoulder harnesses are now required by law in this country for 1990 cars and obviously it is a little too late.
ANCHOR: Yeah, but such a small price to pay for that kind of safety.
LORRAINE KIMEL: $12.
ANCHOR: Thanks, Lorraine.