Wrongful Death Lee Griffin, 55, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 2022 after he left his Toyota Tacoma running in the garage, pumping emissions throughout the house. The plaintiff, Lee’s wife, argued that Toyota’s smart key system was defective, which caused the death of her husband.Toyota argued that the incident was caused by Griffin, but the plaintiff asserted that the 2017 Toyota Tacoma had design defects because it didn’t shut off on its own after her husband left it running in the garage, and that Toyota failed to warn her husband about “the risk of the engine continuing to run after the Smart Key was removed from the truck in an enclosed space.”Furthermore, Toyota argued that the couple knew about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning, but the judge in the c …
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Author: Earl Lee
