{"id":411587,"date":"2010-03-10T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003065"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:37:31","slug":"yet-another-toyota-prius-goes-rogue-smashes-into-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411587","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Toyota Prius Goes Rogue, Smashes Into Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Things went from bad to worse to downright awful for Toyota on Tuesday as yet another of their Prius hybrid vehicles was involved in an accident involving a stuck accelerator pedal.<\/p>\n

According to police in Harrison, NY, the 56-year-old driver was pulling out of her driveway in her 2005 Prius when the car “shot” across the road and into a stone wall. The driver suffered some minor injuries in the accident.<\/p>\n

Just like the car involved in Monday’s runaway Prius incident in California<\/a>, the NY vehicle is among the cars included in Toyota’s massive recall for floor mats that may be causing the accelerator to stick.<\/p>\n

However, since Toyota has yet to come up with a remedy<\/a> for the specific problem with the Prius floormats, the car maker has only been telling drivers to remove the mats.<\/p>\n

But both the driver in Monday’s incident and a police officer investigating yesterday’s accident believe that the floormats had nothing to do with the stuck pedals.<\/p>\n

“I was reaching down, trying to pull on the gas pedal,” the California driver told reporters. “It didn’t move at all. It was stationary.”<\/p>\n

And the police chief in Harrison told the press that the floormat in that incident was secured with plastic ties. <\/p>\n

This only adds fuel to the fire for those who believe that there is a much larger problem at play with the electrical systems in the faulty vehicles. <\/p>\n

As has been their stance since these reports began, Toyota continues to shrug off implications of electrical problems. <\/p>\n

“We have yet to find any evidence of an electronic glitch. If we could find something wrong, we would fix it and be done with it,” a rep for the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses<\/a> [USA Today]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things went from bad to worse to downright awful for Toyota on Tuesday as yet another of their Prius hybrid vehicles was involved in an accident involving a stuck accelerator pedal. According to police in Harrison, NY, the 56-year-old driver was pulling out of her driveway in her 2005 Prius when the car “shot” across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}