| Components - Details | |
|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006075318 | Incident Date: Jul, 22 2006 |
| Consumer's City: CORONA | Consumer's State: CA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company |
| Model Name: E550 | Model Year: 2003 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: Yes | Component's Description: Air bags:frontal |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 1 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1FTNW20S73E | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Aug, 13 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: Yes | Purchase Date: Aug, 29 2003 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 8 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: On july 23, 2006 we were in a car accident. we were traveling through ogden, ut on our way to yellowstone. we were following my parents who were driving a f350 pulling a 37 foot cardinal 5th wheel. we have a f250 and we were pulling a 32 foot prowler travel trailer. a suburban pulling a boat jack-knifed in front of my parents. they barley stopped in time, however, by the time we realized his red brake lights were from a dead stop and not a slow down, we could not stop in time. we were traveling about 50 when we first started slowing down and probably were about 30 mph when we hit the back of my parents 5th wheel. the f250 is totaled because the engine ended up in the fire wall. the front end hood crumbled up to the front window, but did not break the glass. both front head lights were broken and both ends of the bumper were damaged. our front license plate ended up in the 5th wheel. our impact was so severe that we totaled our trailer that was not even hit. it shifted off the frame making it unable to be fixed. we hit the back of the 5th wheel square on. there were concrete k-rails on both sides of the freeway so we had no shoulder to go to. both doors were unable to open to let us out at first. after kicking the drivers door a few times we were unable to exit out of that side. the reason i am writing this is to say that my air bags did not go off. everybody who sees the pictures taken at the scene say they should have gone off. even a local ford dealer says they would have thought they should have gone off. is there anything that we can do about this? also, we want to make the public aware of this. thank you! *nm |
