The Searcy Daily Citizen reports that the estate of an Arkansas woman has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that her death was caused by a defective radial tire, and by defects in her 2002 Chevy Tracker. The 20-year-old woman was killed in a one-vehicle accident when her right rear tire blew out, causing her car to careen into a highway median and flip over several times. She was ejected from her car and died at the scene of the crash. Two passengers survived the accident, which allegedly occurred in the absence of adverse road or weather conditions. The lawsuit claims that the tire carried a 50,000 mile warranty but had only 23,000 miles on it. The lawsuit, filed against Bridgestone and General Motors, claims that Bridgestone is aware of an abnormal volume of failures in its steel-belted radial passenger tires but that the company has negligently refused to remedy the problem. According to the Daily Citizen, the lawsuit also challenges the crash-worthiness of the Chevy Tracker and claims that design flaws caused it to roll over too readily.