David Shepardson Detroit News Washington Bureau Comments Purchase Image Steve Perez / The Detroit News) Washington The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made a series of critical mistakes and had ample information that should have allowed the agency to discover General Motors ignition switch defect linked to at least 19 deaths and 54 crashes, a congressional report released late Monday found. The auto safety agency came under withering criticism from GOP staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a 44-page report based on a review of millions of pages of records and interviews with key NHTSA officials. Agency investigators failed to discover the defect in older...
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