Transportation Secretary said early GM crash tests were inconclusive

Detroit Free Press: WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told senators today that federal regulators didn’t take action sooner regarding a potentially defective ignition switch in certain General Motors cars because data from crash investigations was deemed “inconclusive.”

Foxx, who went before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee this morning, was questioned on why his department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) waited until late last month to open an investigation into why GM took so long to initiate a recall of 1.6 million cars.

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