Class action suit filed against Toyota over sudden acceleration claims

Class action suit filed against Toyota over sudden acceleration claims

Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Lexus, Toyota



Following a statement from the DOT and NHTSA asserting that the unintended acceleration issue potentially involving millions of Toyota vehicles is "not closed," McCuneWright, LLP, a law firm in Southern California, has filed a national class action lawsuit on behalf of all Toyota and Lexus owners that claim to have experienced this phenomenon. Representing the class will be Los Angeles County residents Seong Bae Choi (owner of a 2004 Camry) and Chris Chan Park (owner of a 2008 FJ Cruiser).

According to the suit, Toyota has known about reports of unintended acceleration for years and has received over 2,000 such complaints. Citing statistics from Safety Research & Strategies, Inc., the lawsuit alleges that there have been 16 fatalities and 243 injuries from Toyota and Lexus crashes attributed to runaway vehicles. Toyota attributes these accidents to improperly installed or incorrect floormats that prevent the accelerator pedal from returning to its idle position.

Wright, though, said in a statement, "[N]either driver error nor floormats can explain away many other frightening instances of runaway Toyotas. Until the company acknowledges the real problem and fixes it, we worry that other preventable injuries and deaths will occur." Hit the jump for the official press release from McCuneWright.

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i think i might buy the wrong floormats for my car... then install them wrong, claim i was involved in a similar instance, and try to make some easy money!

brilliant.

so wait...it suddenly accelerates...but it doesnt say anything about the brakes not working? last i checked the best way to stop a car from accelerating is use the brakes. there is driver error, in that they couldnt hit the brakes fast enough, and if they followed the 3 second rule, they wouldve had ample time to hit the brakes. I don't see this one going very far.

We've been down this road before.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20091019/ANA03/310199996

Seong Bae Choi and Chris Chan Park? Really now? Damn giving Asian Americans a bad name. I'm surprised no one else decided to jump on the bandwagon for easy money. They won't win.