2022 GENESIS GV70 — Complaint #1983614
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:BUCKLE ASSEMBLY filed April 15, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1983614 (ODI reference 11583152) concerns a 2022 GENESIS GV70 and was filed on April 15, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 6, 2024. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front:buckle assembly, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 2. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 GENESIS GV70 cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front:buckle assembly 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 2022 GENESIS GV70 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact's father-in-law owned a 2022 Genesis GV70. The contact stated while the driver was driving at an undisclosed speed during rainy weather conditions, the driver crashed into a Ford Fusion at an unknown location and there was a third vehicle impacted that crashed into a wall. The driver of the vehicle that crashed into a wall sustained fatal injuries and no further information was available. The driver's seat belt was fastened however it failed to restrain him during the impact. The air bags deployed. The contact stated according to the police report filed, the fatality of their father-in-law was caused by seat belt failure. The contact stated the father-in-law hit their head on the steering wheel causing blunt force trauma on impact to be the cause of death. The vehicle was towed and deemed a total loss. The failure mileage was unknown.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1983614 |
| ODI Number | 11583152 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2024 |
| Failure Date | March 6, 2024 |
| VIN | KMUMCDTC3NU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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