Chrysler town and country

A federal jury returned a verdict late this afternon that Chrysler Daimler is not liable for serious injuries to a repair shop worker when a pick-up truck jumped forward and pinned him in a body shop accident several years ago at a business in the Town of Union. The injured worker, Matthew Sacco, sought damages from Chrysler Daimler in a case that was tried in Binghamton’s federal court. A co-worker of Sacco’s was killed in the same accident more than three years ago in a Westover repair shop.

Sacco claimed Chrysler failed to install an interlock device that would have prevented the truck from leaping forward. Chrysler countered that the woman driving the truck didn’t know how to drive a standard shift vehicle and “jumped the clutch,” slamming into Sacco and his co-worker on July 26, 2004.