Occasionally over the years there have been reports by a few people claiming that their accelerator got stuck and they were unable to stop the car by any means. I'm not talking about the case where something happens for a short period and the car lurches through a store window or something like that. I'm talking about where it went on for a considerable amount of time and the person was actually driving the car around. I have always believed this to be impossible because:
A - You can shut off the ignition
B - You could put the car in neutral
C - The brakes fully applied with maximum foot pressure are likely powerful enough to either stop the car through a massive failure of some major component, eg the transmission, or stall the engine.
Well, on the news a couple days ago there was a fatal car crash that killed 4 people that is being attributed to a stuck accelerator. The totally weird thing about this one is that a person in the car made a
911 call stating that this is what was happening and that they were driving around out of control. On the 911 call you can here the person saying "We're coming up on an intersection. Everbody hold on and pray,..." Or something to that effect. The Lexus was reported to have been traveling at over 120MPH. To add further credibility, one of the occupants was a California Highway Patrol Officer. The rest of those dead were his wife, daughter and brother-in-law. They didn't make it clear exactly who was driving.Here's a link to the story: