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This year, Honda will be facing a massive lawsuit after one of their vehicles crashed and led to paralysis in one of the victims. Honda made a statement, "Before this lawsuit, Honda had received zero consumer complaints or lawsuits attributing injuries to this design." The Texas Supreme Court will decide on the $25.9 million judgement.

The case involves Sarah Milburn, who ordered an Uber one November night in 2015. The vehicle in question was a Honda driven by Arian Yusufzai who ran a red light while speeding, then colliding with a truck. After the collision, Sarah was thrown from the van and landed on top of the roof. Sarah faces cervical injuries and paralysis from her injuries from the defective seatbelt.

After investigation, a expert witness (Joellen Gill) for Milburn testified that "Honda's detachable-anchor seat belt system is unreasonably dangerous because there is a foreseeable risk someone will use it incorrectly and fail to use the lap belt, only the shoulder strap."

In response to this, Honda stated the following,: "Gill's testimony hinges on two out-of-court, non-scientific exercises conducted by Milburn's attorneys while Milburn's experts were not present. Gill called these exercises 'usability studies."

In reference to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "No recall has been ordered — before or after this accident — and NHTSA has never been encouraged to conduct a field investigation to evaluate any asserted risk from this seat belt design." Honda said in a statement.

"Despite extensive representations regarding safety, the performance of individual drivers was not monitored," Honda said. "Yusufzai had been arrested before he signed up for the Uber app as a driver."

Honda is represented by Kurt C. Kern and Yesenia E. Cardenas-Colenso of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Wallace B. Jefferson, Rachel A. Ekery and William J. Boyce of Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP, and Scott P. Stolley of Stolley Law PC.

Milburn is represented by Charla G. Aldous and Brent R. Walker of Aldous Walker LLP, James L. Mitchell of Payne Mitchell Law Group, and Jeff Levinger of Levinger PC.

The case is American Honda Motor Co. Inc. v. Sarah Milburn, case number 21-1097, in the Supreme Court of Texas.