Toyota Motor Corp said its North American and Japanese dealers had received several dozen complaints concerning what drivers characterized as insufficient braking on its new Prius hybrid car when driving over bumpy or frozen roads. Read full story here. Toyota received the first reports of the Prius complaints last December.…
Legal attacks against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. increased this week following fresh reports of product-safety defects afflicting some of the most popular vehicles in the automaker’s fleet. Toyota announced on Jan. 26 that it would stop selling eight models because of accelerator pedals that can stick in the depressed…
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood advised owners of recalled vehicles to stop driving their cars, later characterizing the remark as a misstatement. LaHood’s explosive comment at a House of Representatives hearing fueled new confusion over how consumers should respond to a January recall of 2.4 million cars and trucks due to…
News 8 has confirmed that a sticking accelerator is being investigated as one possible cause of a crash in Southlake in December that killed four people driving in a Toyota Avalon. Recently, Toyota issued an extensive recall of close to 3 million vehicles for that very reason. Read full story…
The family of a Houston woman whose car smashed into a cement wall, killing her on impact, filed what is likely the third acceleration-related wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota in the nation. Trina Harris, a 34-year-old mother of two, died on impact when her 2009 Toyota Corolla slammed into an…
In response to a nationwide recall of approximately 5.3 million Toyota vehicles for defective accelerator pedals, plaintiff’s attorneys have filed three lawsuits in New Orleans asking Toyota to return profits it made from the sale of the vehicles. The lawsuits state that the accelerator mechanism of the vehicles can become…
– Toyota Motor Corp is facing a growing number lawsuits from consumers who complain their vehicles suddenly accelerate or may do so, and want the world’s largest automaker to pay for it. Last week, Toyota stopped selling eight models in the United States and Canada, including its popular Camry and…
The 911 call came at 6:35 p.m. on Aug. 28 from a car that was speeding out of control on Highway 125 near San Diego. The caller, a male voice, was panic-stricken: “We’re in a Lexus … we’re going north on 125 and our accelerator is stuck … we’re in…
Palo Alto has agreed to pay nearly $1.5 million to the victim of a 2006 vehicle crash involving a city worker who was using his cell phone while driving. Silvio Obregon had asked the city for more than $5 million after the rear-end crash on Oregon Expressway left him with…
Four people died in December just after Christmas after their car flipped over into a six-foot-deep pond in Southlake. Just before 11:20 a.m., the Toyota sedan drove through the intersection of Lonesome Dove Road and Burney Lane, crashed into a metal fence, hit a tree, and landed upside-down in a…