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Toyota Unintended Acceleration Blamed For 89 Deaths

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May 26th, 2010 by Ross Edwards

Unintended acceleration in Toyotas has been blamed for 89 deaths in the Unites States. The NHTSA has changed its estimation of the number of fatalities due to unintended acceleration from 52 to 89, according to the NY Daily News.

The NHTSA says that is has received 6,200 complaints of sudden, unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles between 2000 and May 15, 2010. Unintended acceleration in Toyotas is also being blamed for 57 injuries in that time period.

“We are making an all-out effort to ensure our vehicles are safe, and we remain committed to investigating reported incidents of unintended acceleration in our vehicles quickly,” a Toyota spokesperson said.

The 2010 Toyota Prius was recalled to fix the computer`s software, which may have been the cause of some unintended acceleration claims.

The 2010 Toyota Prius was recalled to fix the computer's software, which may have been the cause of some unintended acceleration claims.

Unintended acceleration in Toyotas first made national headlines when a 911 call from an off-duty police officer in a rented Lexus that had gone out of control was released. The officer and three other people in the car were killed when he was unable to stop the Lexus.

Toyota has recalled more than eight million vehicles worldwide since the unexpected acceleration problems started coming to light. Toyota has issued recalls to replace floor mats and accelerator pedals and to fix a potential software issue, all in the hopes of stopping unintended acceleration.

There was some debate between Toyota executives over whether the company would issue a recall on the sticking accelerator pedal. An email has been made public since then in which Irv Miller, VP of environmental and public affairs, said “We need to come clean.”


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