San Francisco Chronicle, "Couple warns some Land Rover seats are dangerous"

          A Danville, California couple plans to launch a foundation warning drivers of what they consider the danger of inward-facing "jump seats" in some Land Rover SUVs after settling a lawsuit with the company over the death of their 9-year- old son, who was partly ejected in a rollover crash. Joey Moore was wearing a lap belt in one of the two third-row, fold-down seats in his parents' 1995 Land Rover Discovery in the July 2001 crash on Highway 50 in El Dorado County.
          The Discovery rolled twice after it was cut off by another vehicle, causing Joey's seat to bend backward and crash through a rear window, the lawsuit claimed. The child suffered fatal head injuries. Joey's parents, Joseph and Jerilyn Moore, and his two brothers suffered minor injuries.
          The family last Friday reached a confidential settlement with Land Rover, a British unit of Ford Motor Co., after a jury had been selected and just as opening statements were to begin in their civil trial in Marin County, where the car was purchased. "This wasn't about the money. We wanted to get the word out that these seats aren't safe," said Joseph Moore. He said his children would fight over the seats because they could face each other and play games while sitting there.