Channahon Family Suing General Motors

The family of a Channahon woman who died in a May 2014 car accident is suing General Motors, a car dealership and an auto repair shop, the Cook County Record reports.

Scott and Eileen Angus say the businesses should be held liable for the death of their daughter, Madison Angus, because of a mechanical failure in the vehicle.

The Angus complaint arises about a year after Madison, 18, died in a single-vehicle crash late in the evening on May 27, 2014, on South Canal Road, along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, in Channahon in Will County. According to published reports about the incident, police said Madison Angus’ vehicle left the roadway, flipped on its side, struck several trees and slid down on an embankment. Police said alcohol was not a factor in the crash, though high speed may have been.

The complaint states that the Angus family purchased a vehicle from D’Arcy Buick GMC in Sept. 2009. The Angus family says work was done on the car’s power steering system by Manheim, a business that repairs and resells used cars, in April 2009, months before they purchased the vehicle.

And in June 2014, shortly after the fatal crash, the Anguses state they received a notice from G.M., advising of a safety recall of the very defect in the power steering system they assert is responsible for their daughter’s death.

The Angus family is asking for damages of more than $50,000, plus any attorney and court costs accrued.

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