Harley Wants Cruise Control Suit Tossed Out

Courthouse News Service: By DAVID LEE DALLAS (CN) - Harley-Davidson has asked a Texas judge to toss claims from a man who says defective cruise control caused his bike to hit a concrete highway barrier.
       Williams Simmons sued the the motorcycle maker, DFWHD Management LLC and Adam Smith Texas Harley-Davidson in 2011. He says he was injured in July 2009 when the cruise control on his motorcycle engaged as he entered a curved ramp onto Interstate 45.
       Though Simmons allegedly applied the brakes, the cruise control did not engage, and he drove across the southbound lanes of the highway into a concrete barricade, according to the complaint.

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