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Mitsubishi faces death charge
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MITSUBISHI MOTORS is to face criminal charges following a series of accidents connected with a design defect on its trucks. Japanese police have arrested seven former company executives on suspicion of falsifying reports into
a fault that caused a fatal accident. The proceedings refer to 33 accidents between 1992 and January 2002, when a woman was killed by a wheel that broke off a passing Mitsubishi truck. The company's initial stance blamed incorrect maintenance. But it now admits that a design fault in the wheel
hub caused the problem and has recalled 112,000 trucks in Japan. The truck division, now called Mitsubishi Fuso, has been owned by DaimlerChrysler since Janu
ary 2003. A spokesperson for the company says that all UK vehicles were built at Mitsubishi's Portugal plant and are not affected by the fault found in Japan.