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Aug 26, 2015

TRUCKS RECALL * USA: Jeeps, Chrysler Fiat's ones

* DC - U.S. probes 408,000 Jeep SUVs for rollaway incidents

-- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said late Monday it is opening a preliminary investigation into 408,000 new Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs for complaints that the vehicles rolled away after being shifted into park... NHTSA said it has received 14 complaints, including five reports of crashes and three injuries. The investigation covers the 2014 and 2015 models that are equipped with an electronic gear selector or shift by wire system. The gear selection is made by pressing the shifter paddle forward or backward; the shifter does not move along a gate path as with conventional gear selectors... In another complaint filed in February, an owner in Morganton, North Carolina, said he was seriously injured when his 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee started moving after he parked it and the driver door struck him, knocking him to the ground “on my back.” ... In one complaint filed last month, a driver in Austin, Texas, said a Jeep Grand Cherokee crashed into a metal pole after the SUV had been shifted into park. Another driver in Grand Rapids said the process to put the vehicle in park was not safe... In a complaint filed in April 2014, an owner said his Jeep rolled 50 feet down and into a tree, causing $3,000 in damage. Fiat Chrysler conducted an inspection and found no problems. Another complaint came from a Bloomfield Hills owner in December who reported that the Jeep almost drove over his foot exiting; a Rochester Hills owner in June 2014 said he nearly hit another car when the SUV rolled, one of five separate incidents... Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV spokesman Eric Mayne said the automaker is cooperating... 
(Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP: Jeep Grand Cherokee) -- Washington, DC, USA - The Detroit News, by David Shepardson - August 25, 2015

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