The risk
The plastic material from which the car visor is made is too rigid and unable to dissipate the energy. There are no safety warnings. In case of emergency braking or a road collision, the driver's head could come in contact with the car visor resulting in injury.
Product: Car visor intended to be installed on original car visor. Packaging: cardboard box.
Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged
Measures taken
Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Other Category of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market Date of entry into force: Unknown
Other injuries alerts in 2016
335 of the 408 motor vehicle alerts published in 2016 concerned the same risk.
| A12/1687/16 23 Dec 2016 | Renault Clio |
| A12/1742/16 23 Dec 2016 | Suzuki GW250 |
| A12/1646/16 16 Dec 2016 | Citroën C4 Picasso |
| A12/1649/16 16 Dec 2016 | Yamaha WR250R/X |
| A12/1663/16 16 Dec 2016 | Renault Trafic |
| A12/1664/16 16 Dec 2016 | Renault Fluence, Mégane Génération, Clio |
| A12/1665/16 16 Dec 2016 | Audi A4 |
| A12/1675/16 16 Dec 2016 | Opel Astra |
Who notified alerts in 2016
| Notifying country | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Germany | 215 |
| United Kingdom | 54 |
| Portugal | 42 |
| Greece | 26 |
| France | 19 |
| Spain | 13 |
Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2016
More Unknown alerts
21 EU Safety Gate alerts for Unknown since 2006; the most were issued in 2007 (13).
| A11/0004/18 Burns | Jan 2018 |
| Positionsljus Environment | Oct 2016 |
| 0423/08 Injuries | Apr 2008 |
| 0422/08 Fire, Injuries | Apr 2008 |
| 0279/08 Cuts, Fire, Injuries | Mar 2008 |
| 1264/07 Injuries | Dec 2007 |
| 1103/07 Fire, Injuries | Oct 2007 |
| 1078/07 Fire, Injuries | Oct 2007 |