General Motors have been driven to find answers

Many parents of young motorists are asking questions about the death of their children after General Motors recalled models that were aimed at first-time drivers, write Jeff Green and Patrick Lee

WHEN Bill Trautwein offered to buy his daughter a car to drive to college, she went for the blue one — a used 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt that matched the colour on the Florida Gators uniform her big brother wore on the way to two national football championships.

Sarah Trautwein was driving the car on a June morning in 2009 when she left the road, struck a tree and died.