# NHTSA Engineering Analysis EA09013
> **Vehicle Rollaway Allegations** · Opened 2009-08-18 · Closed 2013-02-12
## Investigation
- **Action number:** EA09013
- **Type:** Engineering Analysis
- **Open date:** 2009-08-18
- **Close date:** 2013-02-12
- **Manufacturer:** Ford Motor Company
- **Affected makes:** FORD; LINCOLN; MERCURY
- **Affected components:** POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:GEAR POSITION INDICATION (PRNDL); POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:LEVER AND LINKAGE:COLUMN SHIFT; STEERING; STEERING:COLUMN; STEERING:COLUMN LOCKING:ANTI-THEFT DEVICE
- **Affected model years:** 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- **Affected (make, year) variants:** 55
## Summary

This investigation is being closed based on several considerations.By the most inclusive counting of all alleged rollaway incidents (i.e., counting all alleged rollaway incidents and assuming a singular failure mechanism), the incident rate is low, however during EA09-013, ODI identified a number of different failure mechanisms in 180 incidents related to the alleged defect.The highest rate for any particular failure mechanism, the failure of the Automatic Transmission Parking System, was 4.4/100K.The next-highest failure rate was for the BSI System, at 3.4/100K.For all identified failure mechanisms there has been a drastically declining trend including very few incidents occurring in recent years.Accordingly, this investigation is closed.The closing of this investigation does not constitute a finding by NHTSA that a safety-related defect does not exist.For additional information regarding this investigation, see the complete closing resume in the document file for EA09-013. The ODI reports cited above can be reviewed at www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchNHTSAID under the following identification (ODI) numbers:10168454, 10279630, 10280078.

## Source
- [NHTSA ODI investigation page](https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?searchType=ID&targetCategory=I&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=EA09013)
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