NHTSA complaint: 2022 SUBARU OUTBACK — ENGINE
type: Event
additional type: https://schema.org/AccidentReport
start date: 2024-04-26
description: This is in response to your boilerplate letter of May 25, 2024. That correspondence stated that my 2022 Subaru Outbackâs inspection of May 21, 2024, did not reveal any manufacturing defect that caused the unanticipated acceleration of my vehicle on April 26, 2024. That inspection was conducted by a third-party engineering firm. In amplification of this, the following is provided: â¢ My vehicle on 26 April 2024, at approximately at 0845 AM experienced unanticipated acceleration, in my garage where it had been parked overnight. It was a cool morning. This occurred without any direct body movement from me, whatsoever. The fast forward motion I directly experienced in my vehicle was like if one put their gas pedal to the floor. The vehicle crashed about five feet into a garage shelf with me simultaneously providing braking. This directly caused about $3,000 worth of damage to the vehicle, and I will probably incur higher insurance cost because of this. â¢Environmental factors have been a contributing factor in unanticipated acceleration in the past. â¢Time to extract the data from the EDR in my vehicle took almost one month for SOA to complete the inspection (accident occurred on April 26 and the vehicle inspection took place on May 21). â¢Starlink, Subaruâs automatic collision notification system, did not activate on 26 April 2024, the day of the accident. â¢âAs a rule of thumb, if the crash is sufficient to cause the air bags to deploy the EDR data are usu
organizer: Subaru of America, Inc.
publisher: AI Analytics
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
source: https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/
source organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — Office of Defects Investigation

PropertyValue
property ID: NHTSA Complaint ID
value: 1996556

AI Analytics
type: Organization