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2024 MERCEDES-BENZ GLS 450 — UNKNOWN OR OTHER

crash · 1985947 · 2024-04-23

Vehicle

Make
MERCEDES-BENZ
Model
GLS 450
Year
2024
Manufacturer
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
Component
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Speed
5 mph

Severity

Deaths
0
Injured
0
Fire
No
Crash
Yes
Police report
No
Medical attention
No
Vehicle towed
No

Narrative

this concerns the rear view camera..it operates sporadically, or intermittanally,first time inn didn't work as expected it blanked out and I hit a tree...as I backed up it did NOT show anything behind my car....so I backed into a tree... following that I made an appt. at Mercedes dealer in newton nj., explained what had happened, service manager stated he NEVER heard of that problem, they checked it out and found NO problem....approximately a 10 days later as I was backing up in driveway I backed into a pickup truck that was NOT seen on the screen....my daughter was watching intently after prior crash....Never did the image of the pickup show on the screen..$5887.00 in damage later to truck and nearly the same on my card called Mercedes customer service? got to their voice mail, left a message to return my call ,that it was quite important, a week later I still have not heard from them!!! I have chills when I think how this problem could manifest itself in aster parking lot, or more importantly in a school parking lot... a tragedy because of someone ignoring the problem... hopefully your organization will not ignore this very real situation....I NEVER want to hear that something that is shown on google to be recalled hundreds of thousands of times is still occurring, I find it very disheartening that a $95,000 Mercedes suv would continue since 2016 to have this recurring problem without being corrected. i'm sure there have been horrible instance of a child being injured or

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11584767
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