ALBANY — A lawyer for the family of one of the 2018 Schoharie limousine crash victims claims mechanics at the Mavis Discount Tire shop in Saratoga Springs knew years before the crash that the rear brake line on the stretch Ford Excursion limo had a deadly leak but did not warn the vehicle’s owner, Nauman Hussain.
Brian Premo made the assertion in a proposed amendment to a lawsuit he previously filed on behalf of victim Michael Ukaj, a Marine combat veteran who lived in Caroga Lake at the time of the Oct. 6, 2018, crash that killed 20 people. The document blames Mavis’ mechanics for the installation of a vice grip on a brake line that effectively disabled one of the brakes on the nearly 7-ton vehicle.
“Mavis knew about all the critical defects of the (Excursion’s braking system), especially its unrepaired sinking pedal and its cause,” the document states…