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2025 BMW X5 — SERVICE BRAKES

crash · 2106604 · 2025-07-03

Vehicle

Make
BMW
Model
X5
Year
2025
Manufacturer
BMW of North America, LLC
Component
SERVICE BRAKES
Speed
35 mph

Severity

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

Narrative

Driving home on a two lane road that is joined by a side road at a 45degree angle. A woman ran the stop sign and suddenly appeared on my road right in front about 40-50 feet away. The BMW did not show any visual or audible warning and the forward collision mitigation system functioned in a substandard way not mitigating the crash into the woman’s drivers door. Damages amounted to 25.8k to my vehicle and took 48 days to repair at my local BMW dealer in Albany NY. BMW states to me that the system worked properly. If that was the case how come I had massive front end damage impacting about 30 mph. The BMW manual shows a frontal cross traffic intrusion and leads one to believe in the system. It is substandard and needs revision by BMW engineering.

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11671130
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown