Seat Belt Problems of Mazda MAZDA5

My 2015 Mazda5 was involved in a single vehicle high speed rollover crash with 4 kids in it. They were on a dead end road that ran parallel to a divided highway. Upon the initial impact the front airbags deployed. The vehicle then rolled several times, landing drivers side down 150-200 feet from the initial impact. Neither side airbags deployed. The front passenger seat was visibly twisted. Also my sons seatbelt came undone on impact, resulting in several critical injuries that required him to be airlifted to a children's trauma center. The vehicle was totaled. The weather was clear, roads dry and it was daylight, a little after 5pm.

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I was driving the vehicle, made a u turn and suddenly all lights on the dashboard went off and the vehicle started to turn on and off with no key in the ignition and caught fire. I had parked the vehicle on the side road on a city street.

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We were parked at the local shopping center when my 8 yr. Old son went to unbuckle his seat belt and the entire thing fell apart.

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Rear seatbelt jam and will not unlatched. Seatbelt lockup and child was lock in belt and had to be carefully pulled from seat. Seal belt is lock to seat. Cannot used existing belt.

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The contact owns a 2010 Mazda 5. The contact stated that all of the seat belts in the vehicle malfunctioned. The belt buckles failed to properly unlatch. The belt had to be violently pulled in order to eject from the buckle. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 47,000.

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The third row seatbelts in my '09 Mazda 5 being totally unusable for children and some adults, including myself. The seatbelts are positioned so high and so far forward that they are completely unsafe, therefore unusable. The problem is masked with a high back booster seat but even with a high back booster seat, when I jerked against the seatbelt to make it lock, there was at least 6 inches of motion forward and side-to-side before the seatbelt locked. When I tried this with a high back booster in the 2nd row, there was motion only 2 inches forward and none side-to-side. The seatbelt problem is totally unacceptable and am shocked there hasn't been a recall. There also isn't latch in the third row so how am I supposed to put anyone back there?.

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In the cold weather the driver's seat belt does not buckle. It fails to "click" into place. Often requires several attempts. On 2 occasions the buckle was held in place as-if it was secured only to snap out of place after 5-10 minutes of driving.

Seatbelt in my 2006 Mazda 5 literally fell apart as we were buckling it. We had this vehicle in to Mazda to repair similar problem exactly a year ago. Mazda is aware of this problem because we discussed it at length.

There is an apparent design flaw with the third row safety belt. The anchor for the shoulder is too far forward to secure the belt against the rear passenger which would lead to injury in the event of a collision. We hope this could be remedied in future models or possibly correct for current models on the road. We feel insecure about letting our children in their buster seats ride in the third-row or even adults when we have a full car. We would hope that NHTSA can determine risk of potential issues not just ones that have already caused injury. Thanks.