Toyota Tech Will Investigate Prius Incident

Toyota is sending a technician to San Diego, to look into an incident involving as Prius yesterday.The California Highway Patrol says an officer helped slow a runaway Prius from 94 miles an hour to a safe stop after the accelerator became stuck on a freeway.James Sikes was driving his Toyota Prius down a busy San Diego highway Monday when it happened...Sikes says, 'I pushed a gas pedal to pass a car and it just did something kind of funny, it just did something kind of weird, it jumped and then it just stuck there..'A police officer pulled alongside and instructed him to apply both the brake pedal and the emergency brake.When the car finally slowed down, Sikes cut the engine and coasted to a stop.



 


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