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2018 GMC SIERRA 1500 — STEERING

crash · 1996685 · 2024-06-04

Vehicle

Make
GMC
Model
SIERRA 1500
Year
2018
Manufacturer
General Motors, LLC
Component
STEERING
Speed
30 mph

Severity

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

Narrative

I have a 2018 GMC Sierra 1500 that I bought new in Oct of 2018 and it now has 15,756 miles on it and was still like new at the time of failure. On May 23rd I was driving the truck when the driver suspension suddenly had an structural failure (mostly the ball joint coming out of the control arm) causing the front right side of the suspension to collapse while driving. This caused the truck to go left of center into on coming traffic resulting in a traffic accident.

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11592367
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown