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Heavier than others would cause it to go from the on to accessory position. >> no, she didn't. she only had four or five keys on the key chain and we actually weighed the key chain in the beginning when this started. so we proved that she did not have a heavy key chain. now, as far as her leg or knee bumping the key chain, the position of the ignition on the steering column is prone to do that. so i'm not sure if that happened or not. >> i know your case for the most part has been resolved, so you're here for advocates of other parent's children. mr. and mrs. melton, thank you for speaking wit...

Blumenthal introduced a bill to give nhtsa copies of insurance claims made against them and lawsuits about fatal crashes in which they were a defendant. would you support a bill like that? what's the congressional action that should be taken here? >> well, let's look at that, but in the first case that i mentioned, that happened in 2005. the second case happened in 2009. there was plenty of time, and nhtsa, nhtsa commissioned the study on that first accident. i was reviewing their data where it said the airbag did not deploy and the ignition key was in the accessory position, so nhtsa actually...

Her 2005 cobalt on a rainy two-lane road when her key shut off, and as a result of her key shutting off, she lost her power steering, her anti-lock brakes. she lost control of her car, it went into the oncoming lane of travel whether it was the collision, and brooke died as a result of the collision. >> as far as you know, had she made contact with the key? >> it appears she did, yes. >> given the fact that it was in the accessory position at the time of the impact? >> mr. hood, you're the engineer who's put it all together. you're the guy who, not the government, not gm but for you, and i rea...

>> we're the people left behind when a loved one got into what was supposed to be a safe car, gm car, car that gm knew for years was dangerous and defective. our daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, wives, and husbands, are gone because they were a cost of doing business gm style. >> it was not the only case in 2006, these teens, natasha and her friend amy were riding in a chevy cobalt when the car suddenly lost power and slam into trees. that was in wisconsin. investigators found the ignition was in the accessory position, not the run position, and that they air bags failed t...

Cobalt, pontiac g-5, is the urn ion and the sky. that's are the cars involved. >> these are not just the recalls. these have led to deaths. >> at least 13 deaths. >> if you have one of these cars, what do you need to know? >> the original part of the recall has already received a letter in the mail. april 7th is when we're told they're going to be fixing these cars because they had to make the ignition switch. the switch could be jostled or bumped in an accident and it would switch from the run to accessory position and power braking and power steering was off. >> the simple fix they're sugges...