THE MOTORCYCLE NEUTRAL LIGHT INDICATOR WAS ON, THINKING IT WAS IN NEURAL, I GOT OFF THE BIKE AND IT WAS STILL IN GEAR. THE SECOND WAS IT WOULD POP IN AND OUT OF GEAR. I WENT TO DOWNSHIFT AND IT WENT FROM 5TH GEAR TO SECOND GEAR THROWING ME INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC. I WAS HIT BY A TRUCK CRUSHING MY RIGHT LEG RESULTING IN BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION, BROKEN PELVIS, BROKEN WRIST AND FRACTURING 3 VERTEBRAE. *TR
2005 Kawasaki KL250D22
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › manual transmission. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Train › Manual Transmission | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsPower Train › Manual TransmissionCrash1 injured
Filed Nov 30, 2008114 milesMI
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.