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Jury awards nearly $43.8 million in Town Car crash Detroit News staff, wire and Bloomberg News reports EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - A jury has awarded nearly $43.8 million to the family of a 74-year-old Missouri man who died when the gas tank in his 1993 Lincoln Town Car caught on fire after the car was struck from behind by another vehicle. The July 2003 accident also severely burned John Jablonski's wife, Dora, 72. The family sued Ford Motor Co., alleging the location of the car's fuel tank behind the rear axle caused the fire. But Jim Feeney, an attorney for the automaker, argued that no similar accidents have occurred involving the same Town Car model. Feeney also said the Town Car's fuel tank was in "the optimum location for that car."
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