A class action suit is usually filed against companies because of a severe defect. This is often the case with car companies over engine issues or anything else that causes owners undue burdens. However, one man is suing Mazda after his daughter failed to understand how to start a CX-50, resulting in a subsequent collision. 

This man has filed a class action suit against Mazda for what is essentially user error

Mazda has a new class action suit over the CX-50. However, as mentioned, it’s not for an actual defect. According to Car Experts, Joshua Meltzer has filed a lawsuit with the US District Court for the Central District of California, Pennsylvania. In his suit, he is blaming the automaker for a collision his daughter is said to have caused in his new SUV. It involved her jumping from the moving vehicle before the wreck. 

The class action suit says he bought the Mazda CX-50 in May of this year and then taught his daughter how to drive it. She tried to use the vehicle two weeks later but didn’t understand how to start the car. The lawsuit says, “She pressed the Stop-Start button. The display then informed her, ‘Depress the Brake to Start the Vehicle.'”

Apparently, the directions confused her, and she pressed the brake without pressing the start button, and the Mazda CX-50 rolled backward. The class action suit says she then jumped from the car, and it collided with a curb and a tree. The man behind the lawsuit says the feature is defective. He wants $5 million for himself and other CX-50 owners with models after 2017. He claims he and other owners overpaid for the SUV due to what he calls a “defect.”