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A jury in California has ruled in favour of a family whose daughters died in a car crash involving a recalled vehicle.
The parents of Raechel and Jacqueline Houck, from Santa Cruz, were awarded $15 million after filing a lawsuit against the San Francisco office of Enterprise Rent-A-Car claiming wrongful death. The two women perished in a fiery accident inside a car that had been part of a safety recall but was never repaired by the largest car rental company in the US.
Enterprise has been contesting the allegations since they were first brought about in 2004, before admitting in May this [...]

A disgruntled employee at a Mazda factory in Hiroshima has killed one person and injured 10 others.
The attack has sent shockwaves around Japan, evoking chilling memories of a similar attack by an automotive worker two years ago in the capital Tokyo.
Toshiaki Hikiji, 42, was apprehended by police on charges of attempted murder an hour after escaping the Ujina Mazda plant in his car. Initial reports have revealed that the former contract worker was released from his job two months agao and had been harbouring a grudge against the auto manufacturer. He had travelled to the Mazda plant with intent to [...]

Whitbread owned Premier Inn is claiming that guests are flocking back to the brand, following a push to encourage customers to go on weekend breaks, and a recent advertising campaign featuring comedian, Lenny Henry. Alan Parker, the company’s chief executive, said that times were austere, but that the chain’s strategy of supplying a reasonably priced hospitality brand had meant that it was capable of putting in a strong performance within the market at the moment. Mr Parker added that he was still cautious about the consumer climate as a whole.
Marketing spend for the chain has increased, and Premier said that [...]

The largest car hire company in the US, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, has been told by a jury that it must pay $15 million to the parents of Jacqueline and Raechel Houck. The sisters were traveling in a vehicle rented from the firm when they died in a car crash in 2004. The damages were awarded by [...]

A recent report by Passenger Focus, the nation’s rail watchdog, shows that train passengers are becoming more satisfied by their train travel experience. A survey of 31,000 train users revealed that 83 per cent of travellers were happy with their treatment by Britain’s train companies, an increase of two per cent from the spring of last year.
Although the number of people admitting that they were happy with ticket prices was still below 50 per cent, the figure has increased from 40 per cent last spring to 48 per cent. The amount of people happy with the comfort of train carriages [...]