The Detroit News - Isuzu admits illegally testing vehicles on public roads:
"The tests involved Isuzu sending out prototypes to see how far and how fast they could run. Furuta said the company did not realize it needed to obtain permission for the test drives.
He said at least 104 accidents involving test vehicles had been reported since 1985.
In one case in 1990, an Isuzu vehicle was involved in a pileup in which the driver of another vehicle was killed, Furuta said. Of the collisions, 27 resulted in injuries, three of them to the driver in the Isuzu vehicle.
The accidents were all caused by human error such as speeding and not defects to the vehicles, so the company did not believe it was responsible for causing any of the accidents, he said."
