THE PINTO FIRE CASE INCIDENT The Pinto fire case incident is probably one of the most controversial car accidents in the world that has become a continuing series of investigation in the last 70’s. As early as 1972 there was a record of explosions from Pinto from collisions using this car model and most of the victims have suffered injuries from high impact and some are burned into death and cars are devastated and reports shows that the cars safety locks and doors are sometimes cannot be opened and jammed. According to the investigators it would cost about $200,000 US dollars and using an estimated of 18 up to 27 deaths in the later years while gas tanks would cost $137,000 while the overall possible liability of Ford would amount to $49 million US dollars. But Ford and their engineers says during the 1970’s that they have conducted collision test and it has been successful and that the cars are prototyped to secured and didn’t result in fire and du...