1997 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER — Complaint #717158
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:INTEGRATED CHILD SEAT filed April 21, 2009
NHTSA complaint #717158 (ODI reference 10266267) concerns a 1997 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER and was filed on April 21, 2009. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 16, 2009. The vehicle had 177,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:integrated child seat, 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: 0, 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 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER cohort independently describe similar seat belts:integrated child seat 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 1997 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN MY NAME IS KATIE OLSON I DRIVE A 1997 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER VAN WITH THE BUILT IN CAR SEATS. THAT IS WHAT SOLD ME THE VAN I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE SAFER FOR MY CHILDREN. LAST WEEK I TOOK MY KIDS TO THE PARK AND I WENT TO RELEASE THE BELT AND IT RETRACTED TO MY TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTERS NECK. I COULD NOT GET IT OFF OF HERE I HAD TO CUT IT OFF AFTER A HALF HOUR OF TRYING TO LOOSEN IT. IT WAS SO TIGHT I COULDN'T PUT MY FINGER BETWEEN HER THROAT AND THE BELT. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE BUT I TALKED TO A LAWYER AND THEY TOLD ME TO CONTACT YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 717158 |
| ODI Number | 10266267 |
| Date Filed | April 21, 2009 |
| Failure Date | April 16, 2009 |
| VIN | 2P4GP4536VR |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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