Robert L. Turcotte, Administrator of the Estate of Gerard P. Turcotte v. Ford Motor Company

I cannot bring myself to subscribe to or accept a doctrine that “our nation’s crowded, high-speed highways makes involvement in collisions foreseeable to manufacturers as an inevitable consequence of normal use” of an automobile. *188The collision here was with such force as to cause the gas tank of the vehicle struck from the rear to burst into flames. Even assuming that there was a “defective condition” in that the gas tank’s top was a part of the floor of the ' car, to create liability it must have been “unreasonably dangerous.” Collisions foreseeable, yes, but collisions of the type before…