Chicago woman blames crash on Toyota brake problem
According to Charlene Amerson of Chicago, sudden acceleration of her Toyota caused her to crash her car through her garage.
Amerson was backing her car into the garage on Thursday morning when it unexpectedly accelerated. "I felt it accelerating so I tried to sop it by hitting the brakes but it never stopped."
Amerson filed a report with police. She had her car serviced two weeks ago because of the recall. She never experienced problems before. "It was going too fast, till it didn't hardly give me time to think what I should to do stop it."
Because Amerson's airbag did not deploy, investigators will be able to recover her car's "black box" to get information about the acceleration.
Investiators were recently able to determine that sudden acceleration was not the cause of a Prius crashing in New Yori. The data showed that the the driver never even applied the brakes.
