Nevada Insurance

A well-respected insurance group officials of the federal government yesterday asked to consider, saw five million Pickup Trucks, manufactured by General Motors Corporation, which indicates that the company had misportrayed had played and that the risk of fires in collisions.

The industry group Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, also made public, taking charge of an earlier study of claims of consumer associations that the full size pick-up Chevrolet and GMC 1973 and the 1987 model year have been more vulnerable as a competitor “vehicles to fire some accidents. The insurance group debt of a defective gas tank design.

The report based on a statistical analysis of the road, also found that the rate of GM traffic light decreases by 1988 fatalities, as General Motors change fuel tank’s Design. The insurance group, a previous attempt in 1984, the protection of tanks hadlittle perceptible effect on vehicle safety despite General Motors’ say he did.

“This is one of those rare situations where it is clearly given in the direction of a shortage,” said Brian O’Neill, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which is headquartered in Arlington, Va.

General Motors officials, received the report yesterday, went to comment, as he examines the help of the company. But Edward Lechtzin, a spokesman for the company, defended the safety of vehicles.

“The Institute is just looking for some data,” said Lechtzin. “There are many other data shows, our vehicles are safe.”

Nevertheless, the action group, which has rarely been committed to recall, debates, could be a problem of public relations for General Motors and push for a federal official investigation.

The Institute has not been as hard against a car since the late 1970, when he asked the government to recall certain models of Ford, because in cases where the wheels fell. Ford recalls, police versions of the vehicle but the passenger did not models, and the government not insist that action reminder, “said O’Neill.

Cary Schneider, a spokesman for the Institute for Information Assurance, a New York trade group, said the report could affect the prices consumers free insurance.

But Mr. O’Neill said that if there is an impact on rates, it would be minimal, since the fires represent only a tiny fraction of all accidents.

The vehicles in question are General Motors pick-up, fuel tanks outside of vehicles at home framework rather than inside. In August, the Centre for the safety car, an advocacy group in Washington, asked the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, should be recalled that more than 300 people had died in the fire, because the tanks penetrated when trucks Hit were on the page.

Last week, Senator Richard Bryan, Democrat of Nevada, met with Marion C. Blakey, Administrator of the Highway Agency, and has called for a formal investigation. Several officials of the Agency of the highway, all refused to identify themselves, “said Blakey expected to succeed, of course, as during the next week.

In its report, the insurance group to examine the fires in collisions from 1987 to 1991 with pick-up full size, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, between 1975 and 1990 model years. For model year 1975 to 1987, General Motors pickups were more than twice as high as the rate of fatal accidents on the page crashes, burns. Shortly critical

The group was somewhat critical of General Motors’ presentation of the information security on the pick-up. The largest automaker has on several occasions, the fuel consumption has improved the safety of pick-up in 1984, when was a shield around the tank.

But the insurance group said that its analysis of model years 1984 to 1987 were carried out, showed no decrease in mortality fire in the GM models compared with those of other manufacturers.

“No matter what they were doing on the test track does not seem to work in the real world,” said O’Neill.

This rate has dropped, if during the year 1988 from General Motors in the fuel tank inside the vehicle frame, also falling below the level for pick-up Ford, the insurance group.