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According to U.S. safety officials, last week's highly publicized Toyota Prius accident in Harrison, New York, that was investigated as a possible case of unintended acceleration was most likely caused by the driver. The Prius owner had had blamed the crash on the vehicle, saying it wouldn't stop.
"'Information retrieved from the vehicle's onboard computer systems indicated there was no application of the brakes and the throttle was fully open," NHTSA said on Thursday in a statement about the New York accident.
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- Staged Accident Claims Up 46% In The States
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Cars
Feds Say Toyota Prius Driver at Fault in New York Accident
According to U.S. safety officials, last week's highly publicized Toyota Prius accident in Harrison, New York, that was investigated as a possible case of unintended acceleration was most likely caused by the driver. The Prius owner had had blamed the crash on the vehicle, saying it wouldn't stop.
"'Information retrieved from the vehicle's onboard computer systems indicated there was no application of the brakes and the throttle was fully open," NHTSA said on Thursday in a statement about the New York accident.
Read more »
- Toyota Loses First Unintended Acceleration Case, Pays $3 Million To Victims
An Oklahoma judge found Toyota liable for a 2007 unintended acceleration accident involving a 2005 Toyota Camry, which resulted in the death of the passenger and an injured driver. The decision represents the first court loss for the Japanese carmaker...
- Google Says Self-driving Prius Crash Was Caused By A Human And That It Wasn't The First [with New Video]
Last week, one of Google's Toyota Prius models equipped with the internet search giant's self-driving technology made headlines after it was involved in an accident near the company's Mountain View, California, Headquarters. While we did...
- Source Code: Toyota Fights To Limit Ecu Code Viewing In Legal Battle
Could Toyota's source code hold the answer to its sudden acceleration problems? Possibly, and it's currently working with attorneys to smooth out how this code will be analyzed in its ongoing unintended acceleration legal woes. For those of...
- New Toyota Prius Mpv Plays Hide And Seek On Billboard
Just before the grand opening of the Paris Motor Show at the end of September, we brought you the first spy pictures of the Prius minivan (or MPV), which was snagged in California by Carscoop reader Nick K. Since then, Toyota not only confirmed the car...
- Staged Accident Claims Up 46% In The States
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB; I can already see Bruckheimer behind this) reports that "staged accident questionable claims", or QCs, grew a whopping 46% over the years 2007-2009 (probably due to the recession). As proof that something...