NHTSA Complaint #10662216 — 2012 FORD F-350 SD

ON 11/3/14, AT OUR OPERATION, WE HAD A COLLISION INVOLVING OUR EMPLOYEE AS HE WAS BACKING UP OUR 2012 F350 WHEN HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT UNDER THE BRAKE PEDAL, CAUSING HIM TO BACK INTO A DOOR ON A BUILDING. IT APPEARS DUE TO THE DESIGN AND SPACING OF THE PEDALS THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET YOUR FOOT STUCK UNDER THE BRAKE PEDAL AS YOU PIVOT FROM THE ACCELERATOR TO THE BRAKE PEDAL. COINCIDENTALLY, ON 11/6 ONE OF THE LOCAL COMPANIES HAD A SIMILAR EVENT INVOLVING A 2012 F350 WHEN THERE EMPLOYEE WAS APPROACHING AN INTERSECTION, HE WENT TO STOP BUT HIS FOOT GOT CAUGHT UNDER THE BRAKE PEDAL AND HE WENT THROUGH AN INTERSECTION RESULTING IN A COLLISION. APPEARS ON THE NEWER 2014 F350 MODELS, THE BRAKE PEDAL IS NARROWER, REDUCING THE CHANCE FOR THE FOOT TO GET CAUGHT. SPOKE WITH FORD DEALER ABOUT THE ISSUE. THEY ADVISED BRAKE PEDAL COULD NOT BE LOWERED AND BRAKE PEDAL COULD NOT BE MODIFIED TO THE NEWER STYLE BECAUSE THE BOLT HOLE PATTERN WAS DIFFERENT. NO ACTION WAS TAKEN. EMAILED FORD ON 11/21/14, THEY COULD NOT ADVISE OF ANY MODIFICATIONS. *TR