Brandt
BENTON Chinese citizens who visited U.S. national parks in 2019 are suing a bus company, alleging the freightliner cab bus contained safety design flaws that resulted the deaths and serious injuries of several passengers during a rollover crash.
Hangxiao Che, Dengxing Chen and others filed a complaint Feb. 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Daimler Trucks & Buses US Holding LLC, Truck Centers Inc., Embassy Speciality Vehicles and others, alleging strict product liability, negligence, breach of implied warranty and wrongful death.
According to their complaint, the plaintiffs were among a group of 29 Chinese citizens who traveled from the People s Republic of China to Los Angeles in September 2019 to visit national parks in the Western U.S. They were riding in a 36-passenger Embassy bus designed and manufactured by the defendants.