SMITH COUNTY — The parents of a 15-year-old Quitman girl killed in a Van Zandt County auto accident in February 2011 have filed a federal lawsuit against General Motors. According to KETK, Skylar Carpenter was “properly restrained” in a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Debra Holcombe when the Suburban flipped on Texas 17 near Interstaet 20. Carpenter was among six Quitman High School FFA students on their way to a convention in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Skylar’s parents, David and Becky Carpenter, filed a suit in federal court in Tyler last Thursday against General Motors, claiming that the vehicle’s restraining system failed to protect their daughter. According to the Southeast Texas Record, General Motors is accused of knowing that the vehicle failed to provide adequate occupant protection in a rollover, failed to provide adequate restraint throughout the entire accident, violated the principles of crashworthiness by not providing proper restraint and by not preventing ejection, and for failing to conduct adequate testing or proper engineering analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SMITH COUNTY — The parents of a 15-year-old Quitman girl killed in a Van Zandt County auto accident in February 2011 have filed a federal lawsuit against General Motors. According to KETK, Skylar Carpenter was “properly restrained” in a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban driven by Debra Holcombe when the Suburban flipped on Texas 17 near Interstaet … Continue reading Local Family Filed Suit Against GM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 16:48:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221701"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221905,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221701\/revisions\/221905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}