10.0
really awful- Crashes / Fires:
- 0 / 0
- Injuries / Deaths:
- 1 / 0
- Average Mileage:
- 0 miles
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Over the summer when our Honda odyssey was only a couple months old (we had bought it brand new) my 7 year old son ended up with the seatbelt in the back passenger seat wrapped around his neck! He was playing with the seatbelt and somehow got it around his neck. I was driving and his siblings told me what was happening. I of course quickly pulled over into a parking lot and I couldn-??t believe how tight it was wrapped around his neck in such a short period of time! As I was trying to loosen it it just kept getting tighter and tighter. My daughter ran into a Taco Bell and asked them for scissors and the workers couldn-??t believe the situation we were in said there-??s no time to even call 911 they had to cut him lose. So we had to cut the seatbelt with scissors to save his life as it was super tight on his neck. It was an awful experience I never could have imagined happening. I see that this seatbelt locking system is placed on new cars and I think it-??s so dangerous. I now have no seatbelt on the back seat of my car as it had to be cut off and the dealership said it-??s thousands to be replaced. All they said was I-??m sorry that happened to you. I think it-??s awful cars are made this way. My son could have died.
- Orland Park, IL, USA
We purchased a brand new Honda Odyssey and when driving my 7 year old son began playing with the seatbelt. The seatbelt became wrapped around his neck and went into locked position so it couldn-??t be loosened. I thankfully was near a restaurant so was able to get scissors from them and had to cut the seatbelt off my sons neck to free him! It was terrifying that I couldn-??t release the belt from his neck and I-??m lucky I was able to get scissors to free him! The seatbelt should not automatically lock if retracted all the way! There should be a release button! I went to the dealership to get the seatbelt replaced and they are charging over a thousand dollars! Like I said, brand new van and I had no other option but to save my son from strangulation by cutting the seatbelt free!!!
- Orland Park, IL, USA
- Tamarac, FL, USA