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TOYOTA/LEXUS
SUDDEN ACCELERATION INCIDENTS
By David Fitzpatrick and Drew
Griffin, CNN Special Investigations
Unit
Documents
- Feb 18
2011 NHTSA issues redacted NASA
report entitled "National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration Toyota Unintended
Acceleration Investigation'. Redacted
report and appendices available at: http://www.nhtsa.gov/UA
- Note by AFA:
This NASA technical report isof the highest
importance for the future safety of millions
of motorists worldwide. In my opinion
redaction undermines the work carried out by
NASA. Only with free and open discussion of
the full contents of the report will the state
of the art regarding the causes of sudden
acceleration be advanced. Click to download
pdf entitled: Redaction in
the 2011 NASA Report "NHTSA Toyota
Unintended Acceleration Investigation"
- August
28th 2009: Model Year 2009 Lexus ES350: 4
DEAD. According to the
California Highway Patrol (CHP), a loaner 2009
Lexus ES 350 driven by CHP Officer Mark Saylor,
and three family members experienced a serious
malfunction, which caused the accelerator to
stick. Someone reportedly dialed 911 around 6:30
p.m. to report the cars accelerator was stuck,
and the car could not be stopped while traveling
nearly 100 miles per hour. The out-of-control
car careened through the intersection of Route
125 and Mission Gorge Road and collided with a
Ford Explorer. The Lexus then jumped a curb,
plowed through a fence, and then slammed into an
embankment before going airborne. The luxury car
reportedly overturned several times before it
came to a stop and burst into flames in the San
Diego River basin. The CHP officer Mark Saylor,
45; his wife, Cleofe, 45; Saylor’s daughter,
Mahala, 13; and his brother-in-law, Chris
Lastrella were all tragically killed at the
scene of the horrific crash.http://www.newyorkinjurynews.com/2009/09/02/California-automobile-accident-attorneys-news-Runaway-Lexus-kills-4_20090902877.html
See
also
NBC
Video
- Sept
18
2010Toyota
settles suit over Saylor car crash The
fatal crash near San Diego last year drew
national attention to sudden acceleration in
its vehicles and led to huge recalls. The
settlement leaves out co-defendant Bob Baker
Lexus dealership. Ken Bensinger LA Times. On
21st September 2010 the LA Times issued the
following correction: Toyota
settlement: An article
in the Sept. 18 Section A about a Toyota
legal settlement omitted the last four words
of a statement by the automaker. It should
have read "Toyota and the Saylor and
Lastrella families reached an amicable
agreement in mediation that fully resolves
their product liability claims against
Toyota and a Lexus dealership." As the
article noted elsewhere, the settlement did
not resolve negligence claims by the
families against the dealership, Bob Baker
Lexus, which remains a defendant.
- August
15,
2007
LEXUS
SAFETY
PROBE WIDENS: 40 report unintended
acceleration : WASHINGTON
STAFF Federal regulators have stepped up
an investigation into 98,454 Lexus ES 350
sedans after amassing 40 reports of unintended
acceleration, including eight crashes and 12
injuries, along with cases in which drivers
said their cars stopped only after an
accident. Toyota Motor Co. told safety
officials that the problem appeared to be
caused by loose floor mats and contends that
it dealt with the flaw through a mailing to
customers earlier this year. But the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration decided
to continue its investigation last week to
verify whether Toyota's efforts were
sufficient.
- May
4th
2004
: Drivers Blame Sudden Acceleration For
Crashes HOUSTON -- Last
December, a car crashed into a strip center
soccer store in Kingwood. As it plowed inside,
45-year-old Debbie MacAfee was killed. Another
woman survived, but is still recovering from her
injuries. Carol Parish was the driver that day.
She still cries about the crash, five months
later. "It's a horrible hole that is shot
through your spirit," Parish said. She said that
she was backing out of a parking space, and then
started to pull away. That's when she said her
car took on a mind of its own. ....Houston area
Congressman Nick Lampson asks for Government to
re-open Sudden Acceleration investigation.
See
also
http://www.autosafety.org/article.php?scid=125&did=887
- April 13th 2004 : Technology puts
unintended acceleration back in spotlight. By
Jayne O'Donnell and David Kiley / USA TODAY. Carol Mathews, 60, has been
driving since she was 12 years old on a South
Dakota farm. So when her 2002 Lexus ES 300 ran
into a tree as she pulled into a restaurant
parking space last fall, she was pretty sure
she wasn't the problem. She says it was the
third time the car lurched forward without her
help. http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2004-04-13-unintended-acceleration_x.htm
- HOUSTON, Texas Dec 5th 2003 -- One
woman was killed and another was seriously
injured Friday when a car slammed through a
Kingwood-area store,. Police said the driver of
a Lexus lost control of her vehicle around noon
and it rammed through the front of Soccer 4 All,
4423 Kingwood Drive. News2Houston report: http://www.click2houston.com/news/2686211/detail.html#
- Federal Register / Vol. 68, No. 183 /
Monday, September 22, 2003 / Notices
55076-79: Denial of Motor Vehicle
Defect Petition, DP03–003 : National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
See
under NHTSA Notice describing the
reasons for denying a petition by Mr.
Peter Boddaert requesting that the agency
conduct a Petition Analysis ‘‘covering Lexus
cars, model years 1997 to 2000, model series 300
& 400.’’
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