Gable v. Village of Gates Mills

{¶ 1} Appellee David Gable (“Gable”) was injured while in the front passenger seat of a Dodge Intrepid automobile driven by his wife. He suffered permanent neck and spinal injures, resulting in quadriplegia, when the vehicle slid off the road and into a guardrail, causing the air bag to deploy. At the time of the accident the vehicle was traveling at a speed of 12 to 21 miles per hour.

{¶ 2} Gable, his wife, and his daughter filed a complaint naming appellant, DaimlerChrysler, and others as defendants. He asserted that DaimlerChrysler had manufactured the Dodge Intrepid “in an unreasonably…