# 2025 MAZDA CX-5 — POWER TRAIN
> NHTSA complaint `2203493` · 2026-05-05 · Mazda Motor Corp.
## Severity
- **Deaths:** 0
- **Injured:** 1
- **Fire:** No
- **Crash:** Yes
- **Police report:** Yes
- **Medical attention:** Yes
- **Vehicle towed:** Yes
## Vehicle
- **Make:** MAZDA
- **Model:** CX-5
- **Year:** 2025
- **Manufacturer:** Mazda Motor Corp.
- **Component:** POWER TRAIN
- **Speed:** 4 mph
## Narrative
Life-threatening, unoccupied rollaway vehicle with personal injury.   Possible and/or suspected issues: "Not-P" switch circuit malfunction; "false park"; lack of cross-module redundancy; lack of BCM and PCM redundancy; Diagnostic Blind Spot; lack of Occupancy-Brake interlock; systematic safety failure culminating in unintended, driverless, runaway Zombie vehicle with personal injury.   Background Info:  * Low mileage, mainly in-town errands driving. * Not previously reported quirks, possible latent defects: liftgate opening that was hit-or-miss requiring multiple unlock trunk-unlock doors + get out of the car manual attempts; intermittent off-shutdown double-tap issue to power off car; ill-timed "rear seat alert".  * Reported "engine won't start" resulting in three key FOB battery replacements and a locked key FOB.   Day of Incident:  * Auto-lock and the EBS were not used.  * Driver intent was to park and unload, then permanently park. Car was in-park twice before ultimately placed in reverse and backed into position, facing downhill on a slight slope and along a left-side stone retaining wall.  * Driver thought vehicle was fully in Park.  * Attempted open liftgate via "open trunk, open door" routine, which did not work, so I exited the vehicle to try the manual liftgate button, which also did not work.  * Three back-and-forth "unlock trunk/doors + manually press liftgate button" did not work. * Note: Upon opening the door or anytime after, I did NOT hear an audible warning t
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