The car was parked on a flat surface on the top of a driveway that goes downhill. the car was turned on and when the parking brake was released, the car immediately shot down the hill like a bullet at a high rate of speed. the brakes did not stop or slow down the car. we went through 3 fences before the car was finally stopped by the third fence. the car had 4 passengers in it. the passengers on the right passenger side, both front and rear, sustained the most injuries. none of the 10 airbags deployed. ...
Vehicicle shot forward gaining speed with brakes fully applied whch did not engage the brake override of acceleration. ran through the garage door gaining speed then collided with the garage back wall. there was no control of the vehicle. the adjacent kitchen wall collapsed which moved the refrigerator forward trapping our two friends between it and the kitchen cabinets on the parallel wall. the air bags did not deploy even though the black box indicated the car hit the garage wall at about 17 mph. black box showed full throttle and total application of brakes. ...
Continuation of my report. about a month later the same sudden acceleration occurred but in reverse as the driver was leaving her home and this time she could not stop the vehicle, going thru the concrete fence of her front neighbor taking a side of the neighbor house, down a hill and hitting two air conditioner units and an electrical generator, damaging the whole right side of the vehicle and the rear, braking the rear drive train and getting stuck in a concrete wall which save their life. if the vehicle would have gone 10 more feet it would ...
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