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0Followup: Toyota responds to video of Highlander ramming house [w/video] 1366309740
There are, as they say, two sides to every story, so after we posted a video on Monday showing what an owner claimed to be a case of unintended acceleration causing her Toyota Highlander to crash into a house twice, Toyota reached out to us revealing some additional information about the ...
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Video: Watch a Toyota Highlander ram a house, twice [UPDATE] 1366052580
Toyota has had plenty of problems in recent years due to claims of unintended acceleration, and now here's a video that actually catches such a claim on video. The driver of this 2010-2013 Toyota Highlander claims that the crossover's accelerator got stuck causing the vehicle to slam into the ...
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Report: Toyota unintended acceleration lawsuit settled for $16M 1365453060
Slowly, the many loose threads still dangling after the unintended acceleration issue Toyota faced a few years ago are being resolved. The Orange County District Attorney's office was believed to be the first DA's office to take Toyota to court, its suit alleging that Toyota knew its cars had ...
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Report: NHTSA head Strickland defends Toyota unintended acceleration probe 1343516160
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator David Strickland has released a letter defending the agency's handling of investigations into claims of unintended acceleration by Toyota owners. Republican Senator Charles Grassley has said questions remain about what caused unintended ...
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Report: Judge dismisses most Toyota economic-loss claims from New York, Florida 1336422360
Even though Toyota's unintended acceleration debacle is as ancient as Jurassic fleas for most of us, the California Distric Court of Judge James Selna is still chainsawing through a massive docket of claims. Judge Selna had been considering whether plaintiffs in California, New York and Florida ...
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Report: National Academy of Sciences: Electronic glitches in cars untraceable, more oversight needed 1326983400
"We couldn't find anything, but we're still blaming the car." That's the gist of the statement from a National Academy of Sciences panel headed by New Jersey Institute of Technology physics professor Louis Lanzerotti. The NAS supports U.S. regulators shutting down investigation of Toyota ...
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Camry crash in Utah puts attention back on Toyota recalls 1289942820
Paul Vanalfen's crashed Toyota Camry – Click above for high-res image galleryA new incident involving a 2008 Toyota Camry is raising concerns about unintended acceleration once again. On November 5, 66-year-old Paul Vanalfen was exiting Interstate 80 in Utah when his vehicle drove through ... -
NHTSA: No evidence of electrical problems with Toyota 1281475620
It appears that the Wall Street Journal was correct when it reported that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration had found that the majority of Toyota unintended acceleration claims was due to simple human error. Investigators with NHTSA have reviewed 58 cases of runaway ...
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Report: Man convicted in fatal crash set free with Toyota sudden acceleration appeal 1281103080
Koua Fong Lee, the man who was convicted in 2006 of killing three people when his Toyota Camry struck a vehicle at a stoplight, has been acquitted of any crime. Lee served a total of two-and-a-half years in prison after his defense attorney failed to adequately show that he had been applying the ...
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Report: Toyota was aware of unintended acceleration claims by 2003, says lawsuit 1280845800
According to The Washington Post, attorneys working on a class-action lawsuit against Toyota claim that the company has known about issues of unintended acceleration in its vehicles since as early as 2003. The lawyers have reportedly discovered a field report written seven years ago by a ...

