A [KIA SORENTO] sports utility vehicle smashed through a utility pole and into a house in Brockton Sunday morning, leaving a large piece of wood and a street lamp suspended in midair held up by wires. The injured driver behind the wheels of the silver Kia Sorento was then brought to the hospital with injuries.
Marc Larocque
Enterprise Staff Writer
BROCKTON - A sports utility vehicle smashed through a utility pole and crashed into a house in Brockton Sunday morning, leaving a large piece of wood and a street lamp suspended in midair, held up by the wires still attached to the surrounding columns.
The injured driver behind the wheels of the silver Kia Sorento was then brought to the hospital with minor injuries, according to the Brockton Fire Department. A Brockton police officer at the scene during the afternoon said no charges were filed in the crash as of that point.
The crash took place around 8:20 a.m. Sunday morning at the intersection of Argyle Avenue and North Main Street, said Brockton Fire Deputy Mark Baker. Two street signs linked together marking the intersection were lying sideways on the sidewalk, as firefighters dealt with the aftermath of the crash.
Dislodged bricks at the foundation of the 863 N. Main St. house that was struck were strewn about the ground around a front section of the building, with yellow “do not cross” tape cordoning off the area.
The building was not declared unfit for occupancy by the city because of the damage, but residents were told to stay out of that part of the house, Baker said. An inspector from the Brockton Building Department was summoned to the scene to inspect, he said.
A man at the home Sunday afternoon declined an interview, but said that no one was inside the first floor unit at the time of the crash, and that he is able to remain there without any problem.
The Sorento was driven by a 31-year-old man, traveling south on North Main Street when it struck a pole, breaking the wooden column, before colliding with the house, Baker said.
The man was transported to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton for non-life threatening injuries, Baker said. The man suffered a laceration to the left ear and complained of right side pain, he said. He was the only one in the Sorento during the one-vehicle crash, Baker said.
National Grid was called to the scene to deal with the damage.
A section of the street remained closed as of late Sunday afternoon, as crews from different companies, including Verizon and Comcast, continued to work away at the scene.
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/20161002/suv-crashes-through-poles-lands-in-brockton-house
2003 – 2016 KIA SORENTO Vehicle Speed Control Problems
(as of: 2 Oct 2016):
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2016 KIA SORENTO [3]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2015 KIA SORENTO [5]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2014 KIA SORENTO [7]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2013 KIA SORENTO [18]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2012 KIA SORENTO [13]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2011 KIA SORENTO [32]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2010 KIA SORENTO [0]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2009 KIA SORENTO [3]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2008 KIA SORENTO [25]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2007 KIA SORENTO [7]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2006 KIA SORENTO [7]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2005 KIA SORENTO [6]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2004 KIA SORENTO [4]
Vehicle Speed Control Problem on the 2003 KIA SORENTO
Monday, August 22, 2016
Korean study demonstrates 100% wide
open throttle SUA reproduced by auto
voltage drop
(Notice image: TPS (throttle position sensor) is 100%, while the APS (accelerator pedal sensor) is only 35.5%.)
[Automakers “would claim” the 100% EDR readout from the TPS “PROVES” the driver MUST HAVE DEPRESSED THE
ACCELERATOR PEDAL TO 100%. NOT TRUE.)
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Forensic Science International
Volume 267, October 2016, Pages 35–41
Experimental study for the reproduction of sudden unintended
acceleration incidents
Sungji Parka, Youngsuk Choib, Woongchul Choib
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Experimental Study for the Reproduction of Sudden
Unintended Acceleration Incidents
Sungji Park, Youngsuk Choi, Woongchul Choi
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Highlights
•Efforts were made to reproduce some cases of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA).
•One possible cause of the SUA were carefully investigated.
•Supply voltage level to the ECU was perturbed to mimic unstable power supply.
•The wide open throttle occurred without intention with the unstable supply voltage.
•Current research reproduced the SUA and provided a possible clue to the SUA.
Abstract
A few cases of the sudden unintended acceleration have been reported over the last few years [1–11] and
some of them seemed to be somewhat related to an electronic throttle control (ETC) system [11,12] . In this
experimental study, efforts were made to reproduce the cases of sudden unintended acceleration possibly
related to the ETC. Typically, an ETC of the engine is managed based on signals from airflow sensor, throttle
position sensor and acceleration pedal sensor. With this typical sensor configurations in mind, these sensor
signals were checked for noise levels. However, none of them showed any clear relationship with the sudden
unintended acceleration mainly due to the robustness of the ETC logic software. As an alternative approach,
supply voltage to an engine control unit (ECU) was tempered intentionally to observe any clues for the
incidents. The observed results with the supply voltage drop and fluctuation tests were rather astonishing. The
throttle valve position went all the way up to 100% for around one second when the battery voltage plunged
down to 7 V periodically despite that the acceleration pedal position was kept steady. As an effort to confirm the
case, multiple tries were made systematically on a chassis dynamometer as well as on the test road. In this
paper, detailed procedures and findings are reported accordingly.
Keywords:
Sudden unintended acceleration (SUA), Supply voltage drop, Engine control unit (ECU), Electronic throttle
control (ETC), Wide-open throttle
© 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Please cite this article as: S. Park, Y. Choi, W. Choi, Experimental Study for
the Reproduction of Sudden Unintended Acceleration Incidents, Forensic Science
International (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. forsciint.2016.08.014
LVTGO-VBS
Low Voltage Tester -
Ground Offset &
Vehicle Battery Simulator
(47 pages) (What the Korean researchers used.)
