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BMW's Self-Closing Door Severed Area Man’s Thumb, Lawsuit Says BMW's Self-Closing Door Severed Area Man’s Thumb, Lawsuit Says
BMW's Self-Closing Door Severed Area Man’s Thumb, Lawsuit Says A systems engineer from the tristate area is suing BMW for $13.5 million after he said the self-closing door of his car severed his right thumb. Godwin Boateng of Valley Stream on Long Island said the $70,000 BMW SUV does not have a sensor to detect whether there's a body part or an object in the path of the door. The 62-year-old's attorney, Avi Cohen, described the BMW X5’s door as nothing short of “a guillotine," according to this New York Post report. According to a federal lawsuit, Boateng was standing outside the X5 in July 2016 when he placed his hand on the driver’s door column…

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