Here's another Toyota that allegedly ran away.
It was first reported on the news last night. In the previous thread on this problem, I pointed out that the most mysterious case was the Lexus that crashed in San Diego after being driven for a considerable distance by a CA Highway patrol officer. I thought the typical patrol officer would have enough smarts to figure out how to do the reasonable things to stop the car, one of the most obvious being to shift it into neutral. Well, after seeing this one, maybe those CA patrol cops don't have much sense at all.
This is another case where the driver called 911. There was enough time for a cop car to respond and get to the speeding car. And through all of that, at least according to the news I've seen so far, what they told the driver to do was to use the service brakes and the emergency brakes to slow the car from 90MPH down to 50. Then they positioned the cruiser in front of the car, slowing down so that the car touched the cruiser, and then told the driver to shut off the engine. Now that is shockingly stupid, And one would think there were multiple police personnel involved, yet no one told them to shift to neutral or to just turn off the engine? After everyone hearing about this on the news for months, you would think by now every cop would know about it and have thought through what to do. They let these guys carrry guns?