You and your family may be traveling down the road, with your windows rolled up, and your air-conditioning system on. With a combustion engine and exhaust system within just a few inches away from the interior of a vehicle cabin, are you just assuming that the air quality is safe for you and your family to breathe? If there is nothing to smell, how would you know? If the exposure lasts for extended periods of time, could you be slowly being poisoned in your own car? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. The byproducts of the combustion engine include toxic chemicals and carbon monoxide, or (CO). CO is an odorless, tasteless and poisonous gas that can cause CO poisoning resulting in serious injury, brain damage or even death. Recently, police departments around the country have been alleging that their Ford Police Interceptors, a modified version of the Ford Explorer, are leaking exhaust fumes and CO into the vehicle cabins, causing their officers to suffer CO poisoning that may result in serious injury to their officers and dangerous crashes involving other motorists. Many of these police departments have voluntarily pulled their vehicles from the road for safety concerns. Federal authorities, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, are investigating many complaints concerning exhaust fumes in the Ford SUVs, including both the Interceptor and the Ford Explorer. CO poisoning is caused when a person inhales combustible fumes, including those produced by gasoline and diesel combustion engines. When a person breathes in […]
Police Pull Ford Explorer SUV’s Off the Road on Carbon Monoxide Fears
By Ralph Guito Jul 17, 2017 Posted in Video Articles