WHEN OUR VEHICLE WAS JUST PURCHASED, WE HAD BROUGHT IT HOME AND WAS SHOWING IT TO FAMILY WHEN OUR 2-YEAR OLD SON PULLED ON THE SLIDING DOOR HANDLE, AND THE DOOR BEGAN TO OPEN (WE THOUGHT THE CHILD LOCKS WERE ON, BUT THIS WAS NOT THE CASE). HE WAS SURPRISED AND WAS AFRAID OF FALLING OUT OF THE VAN, SO HE JUST HELD ONTO THE HANDLE. AS THE DOOR WAS OPENING, HIS HEAD THEN WAS DRAGGED BETWEEN THE SLIDING DOOR AND THE SIDE OF THE VAN. BUT THE VAN DOOR DID NOT STOP OPENING. IT JUST CONTINUED OPENING, EXERTING EVEN MORE FORCE ON OUR SON'S HEAD. FORTUNATELY WE WERE ABLE TO GRAB THE DOOR AND FORCEFULLY PULL IT BACK CLOSED BEFORE OUR SON WAS HORRIBLY INJURED. WE WERE UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE SAFETY FEATURE OF THE SLIDING DOORS WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE DOOR FROM OPENING WHEN IT FELT RESISTANCE, BUT THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE. *AK