Q: Car involuntarily accelerates 2-car lengths 1 out of 100 times

asked by Nicholas F on July 22, 2016

I purchased a Lexus-certified used hybrid car and it is exhibiting involuntary acceleration. Two to three times out of 20 when I start to brake, my car accelerates slightly on its own. My car has regenerative braking, so I thought that perhaps the slight voluntary acceleration was normal. It is startling when it happens, but I apply hard pressure to the brake and it stops the acceleration. But “every” time I brake, I have to keep focused and aware that it might happen. When it started doing this, I thought I was hitting both pedals at the same time, but I’m sure that I’m not doing that. The dangerous problem is the distance that it accelerates 1 in 100 times when I brake. My car will accelerate “two” car lengths before I can brake. Naturally, when the mechanic at the dealership rode with me, it didn’t happen! I was told to keep a watch on this and they recorded my complaint. This two-car length acceleration only occurs during summer hot months, like now. There has been no change in the frequency. Have you heard of this in other Lexus hybrids and can you advise me how I can get this fixed (before an accident happens)?

https://www.yourmechanic.com/question/car-involuntarily-accelerates-2-car-lengths-1-out-of-100-times

2 hurt when Toyota Lexus crashes into St. Louis Park restaurant

2 hurt when car crashes into St. Louis Park restaurant

Published  Thursday, July 23, 2015

ST. LOUIS PARK — Two people were taken to the hospital after a car drove into a restaurant and bakery in the western Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park.

The Star Tribune reports the Lexus sedan crashed into Yum! Kitchen and Bakery on Wednesday afternoon.

A city official says the car drove through the front doors just before 1 p.m. KSTP-TV reports the car apparently drove backward into the building.

City officials don’t know why the car drove into the restaurant. KSTP reports two people were taken to a hospital for observation.

Azar Hadi

City official need to do some investigating about Toyota and Lexus. It is everyday that these cars go through brick walls, storefronts, airborne into buildings, lakes, lap pools and every where else you can imagine. Sudden unintended acceleration has been going on with Toyota/Lexus for over 20 years, it was Mark Saylor, Highway patrol officer who exposed this defect in 2009 in San Diego, CA and it cost his life and 3 members of his family. It is so amazing how greedy automakers do not care about lives.

Charlene McCarthy Blake 

"Red Car?" Obviously a TOYOTA LEXUS! Appears to be a 2006-2013 IS250 or IS350 w/ ALL ELECTRONIC THROTTLE CONTROL, right? Likely complete with those pesky...and potentially DEADLY...throttle control SOFTWARE glitches that embedded software expert Michael Barr spoke about in Bookout V Toyota lawsuit won by driver of a 2005 Camry! Oh...how exhilarating...and TERRIFYING...according to those who have experienced it FIRST HAND & SURVIVED to tell their stories!

http://www.austindailyherald.com/2015/07/2-hurt-when-car-crashes-into-st-louis-park-restaurant/

Lexus ES300 sedan crashes into Cape Cod Church

Woman taken by MedFlight to Boston hospital after crash
By Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
Posted Apr. 25, 2015 at 9:06 PM
Updated at 10:21 PM


ORLEANS — A woman was taken by MedFlight helicopter to a Boston hospital Saturday after a car she was in crashed into the Orleans United Methodist Church on Main Street, according to the fire department. Her husband, who was driving the car, was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with minor injuries.

Rescuers responded to the church just after 6 p.m., according to firefighter Thomas Pellegrino.


SPECULATION BY A FIREFIGHTER? :

The couple, who are in their 80s, were traveling north on Route 28 when their vehicle allegedly ran a red light and swerved to avoid a vehicle, according to Pellegrino. The man accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and crashed into the building, Pellegrino said.

Police would not comment on the crash as it remains under investigation.

When rescuers arrived on scene, they helped the couple out of their car. The woman has a fractured ankle and another possible injury, while her husband had minor injuries from his seatbelt, he said.

Part of the wall of the church was pushed in, but the exact damage is under investigation by the building inspector, Pellegrino said.

http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20150425/NEWS/150429581/101015/NEWSLETTER100

Car crashes into Orleans church

April 25, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORLEANS – Orleans Police and Orleans Fire-Rescue were dispatched to the intersection of 73 Main Street at Route 28 for a reported car into the Orleans United Methodist Church with unknown injuries. Upon arrival, first responders found that a Lexus ES300 sedan had driven off the roadway into the corner of the church with airbag deployment and significant front-end damage to the car.

Initial size-up by fire crews determined two parties were trapped in the vehicle requiring extrication.

 One of the victims was an elderly female suffering serious lower extremity injuries, prompting a call for MedFlight. A mutual-aid ambulance was requested from Eastham and both parties were extricated from the vehicle. The female with serious injuries was transported to Barnstable Municipal Airport to meet the helicopter for transport to a Boston area trauma center. The other injured party was transported by the Eastham ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital.

Traffic was slowed until the vehicle could be cleared from the scene. An Orleans Building inspector was called to assess the damage to the church. The crash is under investigation by the Orleans Police Department.

Reporting and photos by CWN associate Craig Chadwick




http://www.capecod.com/cape-wide-news/breaking-car-crashes-orleans-church/


 

Toyota Lexus crashes through brick wall, condos

VIDEO ON LINK

Car Crashes Into Condos: ‘I Woke Up With Debris All Over Me’

April 25, 2015

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– A car crashed into a brick wall and then into a condominium complex in Aurora early Saturday morning, damaging three units.

“It was a loud, crashing noise that almost sounded like an explosion,” said resident Jennifer Halpin.

A car smashed through a brick wall and into a condo complex in Aurora on Saturday (credit: CBS)

Police rushed to 14242 E. Radcliffe Place just after 4 p.m. Saturday where a Lexus crashed into one condo unit and then completely went into another unit, damaging three units in all.

“I woke up with debris all over me,” said Halpin.

Halpin said the car narrowly missed her as it broke through her living room wall.

“I was sleeping on my couch in my living room and all I know is a car came crashing in,” said Halpin.
 Firefighters extracted the driver from his vehicle and he was rushed to the hospital with moderate injuries. He has been identified as a 28-year-old male from Aurora.

(credit: CBS)

Although people were inside the condos at the time of the crash, no one was hurt. Police and firefighters evacuated the condos while the building was inspected.

Police believe the Lexus was traveling westbound on E. Smoky Hill Road at a very high rate of speed. At E. Tufts Place the vehicle ran off the left side of the road, striking a brick wall and then the condos.

“Went through the first home and the car was sitting in the middle of the second home,” said homeowner Curt Sanders.

“Basically my house is destroyed,” said Halpin.

Neighbors told CBS4 this isn’t the first time something like this has happened here.

“We’ve had a couple of people come through our wall in the last four or five years but nothing like this. It looks like a bomb went off,” said Sanders.

“I feel very lucky, actually. I feel very fortunate not to have been hurt,” said Halpin.

Alcohol and speed are factors being considered in the case.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/04/25/car-crashes-into-brick-wall-condos/

Airborne Lexus: Whoever thought Lexus could FLY?

Car smashes into Epsom couple's bedroom

Car crashes into house. Credit: Photo: John Langdon Ltd

A couple living in Epsom in Surrey have had one of the harshest wake-ups imaginable, after a speeding car smashed through the wall of their first-floor bedroom as they slept and came to rest just inches away from them. Phil Bayles reports.


The silver Lexus came around a bend in Bridge Road, Epsom, mounted a parked Audi and flew into the side of the house, Surrey Police said. The incident happened at 3am on Sunday and punched a large hole in the brick house, causing considerable damage to the owner's bedroom and an en-suite bathroom.

The couple escaped unscathed, and three men who were travelling in the Lexus were taken to Epsom Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.

Car crashes into house. Credit: Philippe Sibelly

A number of other cars were also damaged in the incident, and a postbox, road sign and fence were destroyed.

A structural engineer was called to assess the property as police investigated the cause of the accident.


 

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2012-09-17/car-smashes-into-epsom-couples-bedroom/














 

Lexus lands in health club pool

Woman crashes car into Santa Rosa health club pool

A car crash landed into the lap pool at the Airport Health Club in Santa Rosa, Friday, March 13, 2015. (PHOTO COURTESY DICK LEWIS)

BY KEVIN MCCALLUM

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

March 13, 2015

A woman crashed her car into a lap pool at the Airport Health Club Friday morning before being rescued by swimmers who smashed the car’s window to pull the dazed woman to safety.

The dramatic mishap occurred at 11:15 a.m. while a group of masters swimmers were doing laps in the 3 ½ foot deep pool.

“I just heard this crash and felt something hit my back and I turned around and looked and there was a car in the pool!” said 85-year-old Dick Lewis.

Car Crashes Into Airport Health Club Pool

 

 

Lewis said he and several other swimmers where standing at the south end of the pool getting ready to swim another lap when the black Lexus sedan came plowing through the fence, ricocheted off the ladder and plunged on its side into the pool.

“If he’d pushed off he’d have been under that car,” said Lewis of the swimmer in the lane beside him.

 

With the driver’s side of the car sinking or sunk to the bottom of the pool, the rescuers focused on smashing the passenger side window to get to her. Someone used an umbrella stand to smash the window, Lewis said.

The rescuers were quickly able to get the door open, unclip the women from her seatbelt and pull her to safety, Matthies said.

“It was very heroic how they were able to get her out of there in no time,” she said.

One rescuer received minor glass cuts to his torso and the driver received minor cuts as she was pulled to safety. She was taken to Kaiser Health Center for treatment. Lewis said he was uninjured by the fence that struck him.

It was extremely lucky that the accident occurred on a Friday morning and not a day when every chair in the pool area is taken up, Hammell said.

“If it was summer or even on just a weekend someone would have died,” he said.

Officer Danny Alconcel of the California Highway Patrol said the woman, described as around 70, appeared to have been pulling into a parking space when she drove through the fence. She told witnesses her brakes failed, but that has not been confirmed, Alconcel said.

Hammell doubts it was the brakes that were to blame.

Ya gotta love the uninformed speculation! He knows HOW?

“For the fence to explode like that, she was definitely picking up some speed,” he said.

The car was removed from the pool shortly before 1 p.m. as workers picked leaves, concrete chunks and glass out of the pool, which was expected to be closed for a couple days, Matthies said.

You can reach Staff Writer Kevin McCallum at 521-5207 or kevin.mccallum@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @srcitybeat.

 

 

 

 

http://www.pressdemocrat.com//news/local/3659003-181/story.html?page=2