THE DRIVER PUT THE VEHICLE IN REVERSE AND STEPPED ON ACCELERATOR AND CAR SPED UP AND WENT OUT OF CONTROL. BRAKING WOULD NOT STOP VEHICLE.
- NHTSA ID
- 540424
- Incident
- Aug 20, 1998
Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 3 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1982 Cadillac Deville. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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THE DRIVER PUT THE VEHICLE IN REVERSE AND STEPPED ON ACCELERATOR AND CAR SPED UP AND WENT OUT OF CONTROL. BRAKING WOULD NOT STOP VEHICLE.
SUDDEN ACCELERATION/LOSS OF CONTROL. *SD
AUTOMATIC DOOR LOCKS FAILED.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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