05/28/2026
May 28, 1972 | The Ford Pinto became a symbol of corporate negligence after a devastating highway crash left passengers catastrophically injured when the car burst into flames.
The lawsuit that followed exposed what Ford allegedly knew about the Pinto’s dangerous defects — and became one of the most infamous tort cases in U.S. history.
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