ne million dollars, three percent of Fords 1988 profit. Karolyn and Jim Nunnallee were willing to settle but not with the $700,000. They instead wanted one dollar if Ford would agree to recall the 19,200 Ford-built, pre-1977-standard school buses the company estimated were still on the road, and either install a cage around the gas tanks or remount them inside the frame rails. Ford met with the Nunnalles three times but never came to a decision. This caused the Nunnalees to file suit the same day as the Fairs. The amount it would cost to recall all of the buses would surpass the offered settlement amount by two million dollars. Both families received one hundred fifty-nine million dollars.In 1989, after studying the Carrollton crash, the NTSB made recommendations to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. One was that the NHTSA should revise its fuel system integrity standard to provide additional protection for school buses in severe crashes. Ford Motor Company was the only company to oppose the measures, stating that it would cost more to protect the buses than to build them. Since 1993 manufactures were forced to protect the gas tank on school buses. That led to the development of a new style of school buses. These are the ones that look similar to transit buses with the front windows even with the bumper.Fords commitment to make nothing but money, led them to eventually lose the money they would probably have spent on build the buses right in the first place. This is a great example of how corporations ignore the safety of the general public in order to increase their profits. The problem with the social ladder is that the people at the bottom, the general public is definitely at risk at the expense of corporate greediness....
