{
  "id": 19084,
  "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?prodType=C&nhtsaId=PE26001",
  "title": "NHTSA PE26001: Waymo AV striking a child in the area of a school.",
  "summary": "Make: WAYMO. Model: 5TH GENERATION ADS. Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:ADAS:AUTONOMOUS/SELF DRIVING:SOFTWARE. On January 23, 2026, Waymo LCC (Waymo) reported to the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) that a Waymo Automated Vehicle (AV) had struck a child near an elementary school earlier that day. Waymo provided its required report under SGO 2021-01 on January 28, 2026. NHTSA is aware that the incident occurred within two blocks of a Santa Monica, CA elementary school during normal school drop ",
  "authors": "U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration",
  "category": "incident",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-01-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T21:37:52.594Z",
  "source_slug": "nhtsa-adas-investigations",
  "source_name": "NHTSA ADAS/ADS Investigations",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa-datasets-and-apis",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19084",
  "original_url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?prodType=C&nhtsaId=PE26001",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}