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> Those numbers are almost certainly higher in reality: in court, Goodyear admitted it has received at least 98 injury and/or death claims over the tire.

The tire was not in wide circulation. There were only around 160,000 ever made, and most of those were presumably sold for delivery vehicles, which is what they were supposedly designed for. The problem is that some number of those 160,000 were put on RVs, where they're seemingly a time bomb.

That is 9 deaths directly attributable to the tires. It's not like there were just 9 fatalities in car accidents where the cars just coincidentally had that tire.