The mother of a girl who died from a pollution-linked asthma attack has said she hopes for a “day of reckoning” over the use of diesel as the trial of a billion-pound claim against car manufacturers began at the High Court.
Around 1.6 million motorists are taking legal action against more than a dozen manufacturers over claims that several diesel vehicles made from 2009 onwards contained “prohibited defeat devices” (PDDs) that allowed them to cheat emissions tests.
