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2020 Subaru Ascent forward collision avoidance problems

18 complaints about forward collision avoidance have been filed for the 2020 Subaru Ascent, which is 4% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
18 4% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
6 and 0
Injuries and deaths
4 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 6 crashes, 4 injuries.

What owners wrote

Sudden unwanted rapid acceleration toward a building from parking lot causing head on collision: - Manual brakes failed - Automatic brakes did not engage - Airbags did NOT deploy after hitting an immovable object head on at least twice - Driver seatbelt did not lock - Starlink was not activated / notified - No collision warning was sounded (moot) Both driver and front passenger were severely injured and taken by ambulance to ER.

November 2021 CrashInjury

I was in an accident 11/29 at 9:45pm where I hit a cow. I was driving 55 on a straight highway that I'm very familiar with. The cow was standing in the entire lane of travel and I was able to veer into the other lane slightly and took the impact on the right side where I did not have any passengers. The subaru was totaled and I'm now having severe whiplash symptoms. I am reporting this as the airbags did not deploy and everyone who has seen the vehicle says they think they should have.

Reported at 9,500 miles, November 2020 CrashInjury

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