NHTSA Complaint #10534806 — 2010 RAM 3500

TRAVELING AT APPROX 40 DOWN A STRAIGHT STREET IN TOWN , APPARENTLY ACCORDING TO WITNESSES THE TRUCK SHARPLY CHANGED LANES INTO ON COMING TRAFFIC , SIDE SWIPING ONE CAR WENT THRU TWO RESIDENTIAL FENCES AND ENDED UP STOPPING IN SHOP/GARAGE TURNED 90 DEGREES TO THE ROAD WE WHERE TRAVELING ON . I WAS SITED FOR NEG 2 DRIVING , BECAUSE I COULDN'T RECALL WHAT HAD HAPPENED . THE TRUCK WAS TOTALED . ON THE REPORT WE GOT FROM THE INS. CO THERE WAS SOME INFO AND TO MY DISBELIEF WAS A PARAGRAPH ABOUT 2010 DODGE RAMS 3500 BEING RECALLED FOR LEFT TIE ROD FAILURE . MY WIFE LUCKILY HAD TAKEN LOTS OF PICTURES OF THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT , AFTER SOME INVESTIGATING ON OUR PART ( WENT AND LOOKED AT THE TRUCK ) THE LEFT SIDE TIE ROD WAS BROKEN , WE TOOK PICTURES OF THE TIE ROD , AND BY LOOKING AT THE TIE ROD THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO IT THAT WOULD HAVE CAUSED IT TO FAIL , THE PICTURES MY WIFE TOOK AT THE SCENE CLEARLY SHOW SOMETHING DRAGGING IN THE DIRT ON THE DRIVER SIDE . MY WIFE AND I ARE CURRENTLY SEEING A LOCAL BONE CRUSHER ( CHIROPRACTOR ) ITS HIS BELIEF THAT THE TRUCK SWERVED HARD ENOUGH THAT MY HEAD HIT SOMETHING KNOCKING ME UNCONSCIOUS , HE SAID THAT WOULD EXPLAIN THE TILTED ATLAS THAT I AM CONTINUING FIGHTING TO THIS DAY , THE CHIROPRACTOR TOLD ME THAT WHEN THEY TAKE A HEAD ON HEAD XRAY YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR ATLAS ON MINE YOU CAN SEE OVER HALF OF IT , WORST HE'S EVER SEEN .WE HAD BEEN HAVING FRONT END PROBLEM AND BROUGHT IT TO THE LOCAL DEALERSHIP . WE ALSO HAVE DOCS FROM THE DEALERSHIP THAT WOULD BE OF MORE EVIDENCE ON THE TIE ROD , THEY RELEASED THE TRUCK TO US THE DAY BEFORE THE ACCIDENT SAYING THERE WAS SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE TIE ROD AND WOULD BE VERY UNSAFE TO DRIVE AT THIS TIME , BUT NO ONE SAID ANYTHING TO US ABOUT HOW UNSAFE IT WAS AND NOT TO DRIVE IT . *TR