Gas Pedal Problem
I hope my post will help others. We left on our RV trip on March 21st in our 1999 Fleetwood Southwind Storm. We left from Arkansas and we were headed to California. We reached Santa Rosa, New Mex...
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Wrong Lane wrote:
I have often wondered why the driver in a stuck accelerator situation doesn't just throw it in neutral and brake to a controlled stop. If the engine blows up then so be it. That would be preferable to injuries or death!
There was one well publicized stuck accelerator case, that resulted in fatalities, where the driver of a medium sized car was on the phone with a 911 operator and apparently no one thought about putting the car in neutral.
I am glad to hear the OP is safe and sound.
If your thinking of the rented Lexus that crashed killing a police officer and his family, it would not allow itself to be put into neutral at speed and he didn't realize you had to hold the "Start" button down to kill the eng.
