(Toyota) Crash reports tell of horror

[RamboLiberal]

One car barreled through a stop sign, struck a tree and landed upside down in a Texas lake, drowning four people. Another tore across an Indiana street and crashed into a jewelry store. A third raced at an estimated 100 mph on a San Bernardino County street before striking a telephone pole, killing a restaurant owner.

At least 56 people have died in U.S. traffic accidents in which sudden unintended acceleration of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles has been alleged, according to a Times review of public records and interviews with authorities.

Most died while doing the mundane: returning to work after lunch, shopping, driving to the bank to make a deposit. The deaths occurred in big cities and small towns throughout the U.S.: Los Angeles; Tucson; Auburn, N.Y.; Marietta, Ga. The stories are told in court filings, federal accident complaints and police reports.

In the last decade, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received complaints of 34 fatalities related to sudden acceleration of Toyota vehicles, far more than for any other automaker. At least 22 additional deaths related to Toyota acceleration problems have been alleged in lawsuits and police reports.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyota-deaths-mainbar28-2010feb28,0,503798,full.story

[Chemisse]

1. I wonder how many have occurred that nobody even knows about

How can we even know when no evidence is left behind?

[RamboLiberal]

2. I wonder too how many drivers have been brought up on charges

like one lady in the story and are having the horrors of going on trial? Also how many senior citizens have been blamed when it wasn't their fault.

And maybe some of our keyboard drivers who know how to stop the car should read some of these accounts. Seems to me many of these people had very little opportunity to react.

[Mopar151]

3. Keyboard drivers indeed

The Toyota owners I know that drive, or participate in the racing series I'm in, have rehearsed the move to neutral already. AND they are mentally prepared for the braking required to stop a runaway, and will take a ditch or guardrail before things get really f'n crazy.

[Chemisse]

4. Indeed - there have been a whole string of out-of-control senior drivers

Plowing into sidewalks of people. I wonder how many of them were driving rogue Toyotas.

[Mopar151]

5. The one I remember was a rouge Oldsmobile

And the tires were smoking until they pulled the old gent out from behind the wheel. IIRC, in some recent cases, not all the drivers were seniors.

[Chemisse]

6. But we just heard about the seniors

It was a media favorite for a while.

[Zoeisright]

7. Toyota execs should be put on trial for murder.

It's as simple as that. They want personhood? They have to pay for it.

[fasttense]

8. But the unelected Dancing Supremes have ruled that corporations are gods.

Haven't you heard? Corporations are gods so you can't hold them accountable when they murder.

See the part in the Declaration of Independence that says: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

Well the Dancing Supremes have declared that the Creator or Creators mentioned above are Corporations.

:sarcasm: