Trunk Lid problems of the 2015 Honda Accord

Tl the contact owns a 2015 Honda Accord. While the contact was attempting to put something inside the trunk, the trunk closed and struck the contact on the nose. Her nose was sore, but did not require medical attention. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or independent mechanic for diagnostic testing or repairs. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 52,000.

The trunk lid will not stay in the open position when parked on an incline. No issues with lid closing have occurred while parked on level ground. But, when parked on a sloping driveway, trunk lid will drop to the closed position without warning hitting anyone accessing items in the trunk. Incidents of the trunk lid hitting someone in the head or back have occurred. While it has not happened so far, if trunk lid were to fall the entire distance and hit someone's hands, there is the potential for major injury.

The trunk on my car automatically opens so I have to pull over and close the trunk. I have noticed that usually this happens when I am leaving my house so I believe there is a defect in the automatic trunk opening feature on this car. I back out of the drive way and after driving for 1/2 a block or 1 block the trunk open light comes on. Then I have to pull over and shut the trunk or the trunk lid will open fully and block my visibility out of my rear window. The vehicle is in motion and on a city street when this happens. I am not sure if starting the car causes this problem or putting the car in gear or automatically unlocking the car doors but there is something in that series of actions that causes the trunk to open. This does not happen every time I leave my house but it happens sporadically. I went online to research this problem and there are customer complaints about this issue on Honda cars so I am not the only one having the problem.