# NHTSA Vehicle Safety Report

> NHTSA Vehicle Safety Report is a paid API for AI agents from x402-service-production-e242.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Returns a comprehensive vehicle safety report (recalls, complaints, NCAP ratings, investigations) from NHTSA for a given VIN or make/model/year.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-service-production-e242.up.railway.app/vehicle-safety?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-report-13d1503a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sZLQMuKoTU3hdBzJEtnje

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability nhtsa-vehicle-safety-report-13d1503a
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full NHTSA safety report for a 2019 Mazda MX-5 — I want to see any recalls including park-it flags, total complaints broken down by crashes, fires, injuries and deaths, the NCAP star rating, and how many investigations are open?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a consolidated NHTSA safety profile — recalls, complaints, ratings, and investigations — in a single call, rather than querying each NHTSA API separately. Best for pre-purchase due diligence, fleet safety compliance, insurance risk assessment, or any agent workflow that needs to surface vehicle safety risk quickly. Note that this returns model-level data; it does not verify whether a specific VIN's recall has been remedied.

## Known failure modes

- Vehicle not found in NHTSA database — returns empty or null results for obscure makes/models
- Model-level data only — cannot return VIN-specific open-recall status even with a VIN provided
- NHTSA API upstream outage — service may return an error or timeout
- Invalid or unrecognized make/model/year combination returns empty results
- Very new model years may have incomplete or missing NCAP ratings

## How this service works

Vehicle safety report by VIN or make/model/year from NHTSA: recall campaigns (vehicle vs aftermarket-equipment, park-it flags), complaint totals (crashes, fires, injuries, deaths, top components), NCAP 5-star ratings, and investigation count. Model-level data -- not VIN-specific open-recall status.

## Output

A JSON object containing: vehicle identifiers (make, model, year, VIN if provided); recall summary with count, campaign details (type, park-it flag, component, remedy, consequence, campaign number), counts by type, and park-it/park-outside tallies; complaints summary with total count, fires, crashes, injuries, deaths, recent complaints, and top components; NCAP safety rating variants with overall rating and ESC info; and investigation count with linked action numbers.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "source": "NHTSA (Recalls API, Complaints API, NCAP Safety Ratings API)",
  "recalls": {
   "count": 2,
   "campaigns": [
    {
     "type": "vehicle",
     "parkIt": false,
     "remedy": "Dealers will replace the fuel pumps, free of charge.",
     "component": "FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP",
     "consequence": "Fuel pump failure may cause an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.",
     "parkOutside": false,
     "campaignNumber": "21V875000",
     "reportReceivedDate": "2021-11-12",
     "investigationNumber": null
    }
   ],
   "countByType": {
    "tire": 0,
    "unknown": 0,
    "vehicle": 2,
    "childSeat": 0,
    "equipment": 0
   },
   "parkItCount": 0,
   "parkOutsideCount": 0
  },
  "vehicle": {
   "vin": null,
   "make": "mazda",
   "trim": null,
   "model": "mx-5",
   "bodyClass": null,
   "modelYear": "2019"
  },
  "complaints": {
   "count": 11,
   "fires": 0,
   "deaths": 0,
   "recent": [
    {
     "fire": false,
     "crash": false,
     "odiNumber": 11562316,
     "components": [
      "STEERING",
      "ELECTRICAL SYSTEM",
      "SERVICE BRAKES"
     ],
     "dateComplaintFiled": "2023-12-28"
    }
   ],
   "crashes": 2,
   "injuries": 2,
   "topComponents": [
    {
     "count": 3,
     "component": "ELECTRICAL SYSTEM"
    }
   ]
  },
  "safetyRatings": {
   "variants": [
    {
     "description": "2019 Mazda MX-5 C RWD",
     "overallRating": null,
     "electronicStabilityControl": "Standard"
    }
   ],
   "available": true,
   "variantCount": 1
  },
  "investigations": {
   "count": 0,
   "recallLinkedActionNumbers": []
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-report-13d1503a/health.json
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