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2025 CHEVROLET TRAX — SERVICE BRAKES

crash1 injured · 2252891 · 2026-10-02

Vehicle

Make
CHEVROLET
Model
TRAX
Year
2025
Manufacturer
General Motors, LLC
Component
SERVICE BRAKES
Speed
9 mph

Severity

Deaths
0
Injured
1
Fire
No
Crash
Yes
Police report
No
Medical attention
Yes
Vehicle towed
Yes

Narrative

On August 20, 2026, at approximately 7:54 AM during the daytime, I was driving approximately 5–9 mph up a dimly lit parking garage ramp, turning left into my usual parking spot for work on the ramp. My car’s front end had already cleared a cement column on my right, so I was pleasantly parking. Suddenly, the front-end collision assist malfunctioned, activating when it shouldn't have, and violently pushed my right front tire into the cement column, whipping the steering wheel around immediately fracturing the radius bone in my dominant right forearm. The impact was so sudden and forceful that I initially thought another vehicle had struck me from behind, but no vehicle was there and my rear bumper was undamaged. At the slow speed I was traveling while decelerating up a ramp and turned left, this wreck should've never happened and was unnecessarily severe. My new car sustained nearly $5,000 in damage, mostly due to the right front tire pushed far back into the wheel well, making the vehicle unsafe to drive. Despite my dashboard displaying multiple systems as disabled after the crash, the vehicle’s black box reportedly recorded no collision nor system failures. About a week and a half earlier, my entire dashboard had went black for an afternoon and did not return until the following morning. These events raise serious concerns about software or sensor malfunctions and the vehicle’s failure to record the crash. Chevy owners need to be aware of these potential safety concerns.

Source

Authoritative
NHTSA ODI Flat-File Downloads
ODI Number
11768523
Machine
JSON-LD · Markdown