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2023 FORD BRONCO SPORT — VISIBILITY/WIPER

crash · 2081500 · 2025-04-09

Vehicle

Make
FORD
Model
BRONCO SPORT
Year
2023
Manufacturer
Ford Motor Company
Component
VISIBILITY/WIPER
Speed
5 mph

Severity

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

Narrative

The bronco sport badlands has a purely cosmetic strip on the dash that is a reflective bright orange. Its like a thin ribbon that travels around the drivers area, when the sun is raising or setting that strip reflects back onto the inside of the windshield blocking vision. It changes depth perception massively and creates a line straight across the drivers field of vision. When the sun is up and clear it just normal reflects and can be blocked with sun glasses or such but the reflection periods absolutely can not. I am not alone in this, reddit, ford forums etc have multiple mentions of this. I have already been hit twice (both accidents other driver at fault) but I believe I could have avoided them with clear field of visions.

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11653594
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown