2018 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CROSS — Complaint #1796906
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:INTERNAL:GEARS filed February 22, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1796906 (ODI reference 11453351) concerns a 2018 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CROSS and was filed on February 22, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 10, 2022. The vehicle had 10,087 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:automatic transmission:internal:gears, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 1, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CROSS cohort independently describe similar power train:automatic transmission:internal:gears failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CROSS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. The contact stated she was turning off the vehicle and shifted gears to park, when exiting the front driver's side, the vehicle began to roll backward and the front driver's side door knocked her down. The contact stated the emergency brakes were not applied. The contact stated the vehicle began to roll over her and her hair and left shoulder got caught under the front driver side tire. The contact was unable to move and was caught under the front driver's side tire for 45 minutes until a bystander heard her yeller out for help. The contact sustained injuries on her compression contractions on her 12th thoracic vertebra, left ear, emotional distress, and crush injury complications. The contact was able to seek medical attention at a hospital. The contact did call the police department and arrived at the residence, but was not aware of a police report being filed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. A dealer was not contacted. Th
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1796906 |
| ODI Number | 11453351 |
| Date Filed | February 22, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 10, 2022 |
| VIN | JA4AT5AA4JZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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