Re: Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop

Mike Hunter · 2010-03-09T19:13:17+00:00

The video is all over the news, not good for Toyota. There is nothing like a visual aid that counters a point one is trying to make. Wanna bet it will end up on "Cops" or "Worlds Worst?"Another of these little MOWING MACHINES runs out of control. My takeon the issue is that Toyota sends the engineers with the highest IQ towork at Lexus, while those with very low IQ are assigned to Toyota. Iknow because I once owned a little Toyota Tercel. UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED,you know...EL CAJON, Calif. ? A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow arunaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after thecar's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHPsaid.Prius driver James Sikes called 911 about 1:30 p.m. after acceleratingto pass another vehicle on Interstate 8 near La Posta and finding thathe could not control his car, the CHP said."I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car and it did something kind offunny... it jumped and it just stuck there," the 61-year-old driversaid at a news conference. "As it was going, I was trying thebrakes...it wasn't stopping, it wasn't doing anything and it just keptspeeding up," Sikes said, adding he could smell the brakes burning hewas pressing the pedal so hard.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THE WISE TIBETAN MONKEY SAYS"The monkey should be treated with the same respect as the lion"