2012 TOYOTA CAMRY HYBRID — Complaint #985416
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER filed June 11, 2013
NHTSA complaint #985416 (ODI reference 10519291) concerns a 2012 TOYOTA CAMRY HYBRID and was filed on June 11, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 7, 2013. The report was geocoded to Mississippi based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:rear/other, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 TOYOTA CAMRY HYBRID cohort independently describe similar seat belts:rear/other 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 2012 TOYOTA CAMRY HYBRID shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
CPSC: I1350123A. COSCO CAR SEAT. CONSUMER STATED THAT THE INERTIAL LOCK CREATED A PROBLEM REMOVING THE SEAT BELT BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH SLACK TO UNLOOP. THIS PROBLEM CAUSED A CHILD TO PASS OUT. *LN A THREE YEAR CHILD, MANAGED TO WRAP THE SEAT BELT AROUND HER NECK. THE CONSUMER STATED ALL NEW VEHICLE, SHOULD COME EQUIPPED WITH A TOOL TO CUT SEAT BELT IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 985416 |
| ODI Number | 10519291 |
| Date Filed | June 11, 2013 |
| Failure Date | May 7, 2013 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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