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I just heard about this five minutes ago and am absolutely horrified by it, since I have the 2008MY of this van. Absolutely heartbreaking and insane, never imagined this could happen.
Sounds like a law suite to me. Seats are supposed to stay in place to keep passengers safe incase of an accident. There's no way it should fold like that from the weight of a 16 year old leaning on it without engaging some kind of lever.
Sounds like a law suite to me. Seats are supposed to stay in place to keep passengers safe incase of an accident. There's no way it should fold like that from the weight of a 16 year old leaning on it without engaging some kind of lever.
Absolutely horrible. I think the lawsuit is going to go towards the 911 dispatcher who treated it as a prank call and didn't give the police all the information (like the make, model and color of the Honda minivan) so they were unable to find him when they went to the parking lot.
Absolutely horrible. I think the lawsuit is going to go towards the 911 dispatcher who treated it as a prank call and didn't give the police all the information (like the make, model and color of the Honda minivan) so they were unable to find him when they went to the parking lot.
There's too little information to be sure, but having owned two Odysseys (01 and 07) it looks to me like one of three things happened: the seat latch was faulty, the kid pulled the seatback release trying to make more room to grab his stuff, or the kid pulled the seat release while meaning to pull the seatback release. (Even after more than a decade of ownership and that one's a strap and one's a lever, I can never remember which one is which.)
I've never had a mechanical failure like that on a Honda. So if the kid didn't contribute to the accident by pulling a lever, the latch may have been dirty or blocked by something.
In no case do I think Honda is at fault here, unless something is discovered about this particular year/model design of seat latches, but they're going to get deep-pocketed anyway. The 911 dispatcher should be burned at the stake - this was a stupid, freak accident of the kind that happen all the time from a thousand different weird causes, and 911 is supposed to be the front line to save us from them. Even sending the nearest cop to check out a "prank call" would have saved the kid. Fail.
I feel so sorry for this kid......he needed help and gave a pretty clear description of his vehicle and where it was located. How on earth did this get flubbed so badly.....someone needs to be held accountable.
With the millions upon millions of miles that generation of the model has racked up over the years this definitely seems to qualify as a freak accident. What a absolutely tragic event for that family...he was sooo close to being found. Really hope the determine what the issue was with the second call, this is just heartbreakingly sad.
Absolutely horrible. I think the lawsuit is going to go towards the 911 dispatcher who treated it as a prank call and didn't give the police all the information (like the make, model and color of the Honda minivan) so they were unable to find him when they went to the parking lot.
Yes. Exactly the same thing I was saying to my SO.
A 911 dispatcher should not have assumed it was a prank. So sad.
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