# 2024 MERCEDES-BENZ GLE 450 — LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST
> NHTSA complaint `2210743` · 2026-05-28 · Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
## Severity
- **Deaths:** 0
- **Injured:** 0
- **Fire:** No
- **Crash:** Yes
- **Police report:** No
- **Medical attention:** No
- **Vehicle towed:** Yes
## Vehicle
- **Make:** MERCEDES-BENZ
- **Model:** GLE 450
- **Year:** 2024
- **Manufacturer:** Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
- **Component:** LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST
- **Speed:** 55 mph
## Narrative
Around 4pm 2/26/2026 my wife was driving southbound on I-65 around Middle River Bridge just north of Mobile AL.  We were in the right lane when the car began to hydroplane; she immediately took her foot off of the accelerator and did not apply breaks.  I was in the back seat due to a previous day surgery.  The rear of the vehicle swayed back and forth a few times as the vehicle drifted.  Then it was violently moved from one side of the lane to the other and eventually into a hard and distinct left hand 720 spin.  We then collided into the concrete barrier next to the left hand lane.  It was intense but a glancing blow mostly on the driver’s side.  The spin ended with us pointing northbound in the left lane.  Just as I thought the crash was over the car lunged in the forward direction like it was going to take off and quickly came to a stop.  The weather was very hard rain and my wife was slowing for traffic ahead (which turned out to be another accident going up the General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge.  Incredibly the car was still running and I was able to slowly drive to safety and not cause any further accidents.  Later in the evening (screen shot shows 6:42pm) after reporting to my insurance I looked on Google maps to find the approximate area our crash occurred I could see another accident happened with a significant backup of traffic. I believe the lane assist and brake assist tried to correct the drifting and over corrected the vehicle into a spin. Lane assist in the 2024 M
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*Source: [NHTSA ODI](https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*