NHTSA complaint: 2020 HONDA CIVIC — ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
I turn my car on To go to work realized I didnât have my phone. Car was in park. I hadnât touch the gearshift at all I get out of the car. Approximate 20 seconds after I walk away from the car, my home security camera shows the car creeping extremely slowly backwards up into my driveway going up across the crown of the roadâ¦ across the street and falls into a 10 foot deep ditch. I am 100% certain that Car was in Parkâ¦ There were no sounds when I open the door to alert me that it would be anything other than park.. The back up camera was not engaged, so it was definitely not in Reverseâ¦ When the tow truck pulled it out of the ditch, it was Still running It had stopped vertically before it hit the bottom of the ditch, and rear tire got stuck in muddy waterâ¦. There were no ruts from tire, spinning from the front end at all in the ditch or the grass above the ditchâ¦ There is a recall of some 2020 civics for brake failure, parking brake failureâ¦. I strongly believe my car needs to be part of this recall, because obviously something is wrongâ¦ My road is 55 mph and a car had to stop to avoid hitting my carâ¦ I have video from my home camera That shows a clear delay between when I get out of my car and shut the door and the car starts crawling. I tested it after he pulled it out of the ditch just to see if I had it in reverse from the same exact spot wouldnât move and it immediately moved so Iâm certain something is wrongâ¦ Right now the body shop canât even
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — Office of Defects Investigation