NHTSA won't investigate new Toyota unintended acceleration cases - Driving
safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer’s request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Lexus and Toyota vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says three crashes cited in the engineer’s request are consistent with the driver mistakenly hitting the gas pedal instead of the brake. Raghavan contended that his 2009 Lexus ES350 sedan surged suddenly in a parking lot while being driven by his wife, crashing into some bushes and smashing the front of the car. He says she did not press the gas, which was documented by the car’s event data recorder. Source: driving.ca
