Mid/rear Seats Assembly Problems of Toyota Prius

The Toyota Prius 2006 was hit from behind (rear ended) on 05/13/2021 and driver's seat collapsed backwards, causing a head injury. This was not expected and is not acceptable by any safety standard. Fortunately there were no other occupants in the vehicle. This was a chain collision and the Prius was stationary when it was hit in a secondary collision and still this happened, what if our car was hit in the primary collision or what if there was a child on the back seat?! the vehicle immediately behind was also stationary before it experienced the first order collision. These seats deserve a safety recall. One can find many other seat collapsing events, even with children killed or brain damaged on back seats. Place of the accident: the chesapeake expressway (168). Accident report attached.

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During the accident, the back seat fell down. I am assuming it happened due to the force of the impact but it was terrifying because sometimes we have our children rear facing in that vehicle. The vehicle was rear-ended on the freeway and the glass was broken in the back from the impact.

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I am an excellent driver. I purchased this Prius in the summer of 2011. We (my wife and young daughter) were proceeding on juanita drive n. E. In kirkland, wa. My wife and I agree that our speed was approximately 30-33 mph and that there were approximately 3+ car lengths between us and the vehicle in front of us. The weather was dry and sunny. Suddenly, a vehicle three vehicles ahead of us stopped to make a left turn, and the two vehicles behind it were able to stop. I immediately applied my brakes to the floor as soon as I observed the stopped vehicle ahead. I felt no response - no gripping of the brakes or gripping of the wheels to the road, no squealing, no skidding, no sense of the brakes slowing the vehicle in the three seconds I applied them. Due to vehicles in the opposing lane, a narrow road and no shoulder (a ditch with telephone poles on the right), I was forced to design the least harmful impact - my front right corner to the rear left corner of the vehicle in front. The impact tore open the right front of the vehicle, shattering the windshield next to my wife and causing her legs to fly up and strike the dashboard, injuring her legs in several places. Her airbag did not deploy. My 7-year-old was in her car seat in the back seat. The larger split back was behind her. The back became unhinged at impact and flipped forward, forcing my daughter's upper body forward. She sustained minor facial injuries. While it is possible that the airbag non-deployment was appropriate (I am not certain of this), there is no question that the braking was soft, squishy, non-existent, and the back seat should not have become unhinged.

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My car was rear ended by a sedan and my car was pushed forward and ended up rear ending a car in front. Not sure about the speed at which car rear ended me, but I should have been traveling around 10 miles or less. At the end I noticed that my car seat had slid back completely. I expected the car seat to hold steady so that the belt can be effective. I have lower back and right shoulder pain and not sure if it would have been prevented should the seat have stayed in place. I think this is a defect that needs to be addressed and not sure if it's specific to my car seat. My kid was in the back seat and luckily there was enough room and the car seat moving back didn't hurt her. But she was shocked that the car seat came close to her at the of the accident. Both my kids in the back seat complained initially due to pain and shock. Now they seem to be fine now.

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Vehicle struck from behind at approximately 20mph and pushed into anopther vehicle. Driver seat belt did not lock and driver's head struck the top of the steering wheel. The driver seat back also broke and the driver fell backward until the seat back was stopped by the cushion of the rear seats.

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2008 Toyota Prius, option package 6 manually adjustable leather bucket front seats, 27,000. Miles. Drivers seat manual recline mechanism fails to consistently positively lock into position and requires driver to reach around and pull on seat back to positively lock (click) the recline mechanism in position. St charles Toyota (illinios) refuses to repair the seat under warranty. They state, "they all do that". If a rear end collision where to occur while the driver seat is not positively locked, injury to rear seat passengers (children) would likely occur due to the driver seat back being thrust into them by the acceleration of the impact. Driver would likely loose control of the vehicle due to the seat back failing into the rearward recline position.