GM recalls Chevy Cobalt, other vehicles a decade after finding ignition-switch defect

GM recalls Chevy Cobalt, other vehicles a decade after finding ignition-switch defect General Motors said last week that it was recalling more than 700,000 vehicles because of a problem with the ignition switch. GM said six people had been killed in... More

GM recalls Chevy Cobalt, other vehicles a decade after finding ignition-switch defect General Motors said last week that it was recalling more than 700,000 vehicles because of a problem with the ignition switch. GM said six people had been killed in accidents. But CBS News has learned GM's recall is coming 10 years after the defect was first discovered and seven years after people began to die. On Oct. 24, 2006, a compact car went off the road in St. Croix County, Wis. Two teenage girls were killed when a Chevrolet Cobalt went off the road in Wisconsin CBS News Two teenagers were killed: 18-year-old Natasha Weigel and Margie Beskau's 15-year-old daughter, Less