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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang and agencies

Ford to appeal $1.7bn verdict against it in Georgia truck crash case

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Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 when their 2002 Ford F-250 crashed. Their children pursued a wrongful death lawsuit against the automaker. Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP

The US automaker Ford has promised to appeal a $1.7bn verdict leveled against it in connection with a pickup truck crash that killed a Georgia couple, a manufacturer representative said on Sunday.

Jurors in Gwinnett county, just north-east of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in a yearslong civil case centering on what the plaintiffs’ lawyers argued were dangerously defective roofs on the Ford pickup involved in the crash and other vehicles like it, lawyer James Butler Jr said Sunday.

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