Report: Toyota urging owners to remove the tainted floor mats from their cars
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Toyota Motor Corp. is urging 3.8 million owners of certain Toyota and Lexus models to remove the floor mats from their cars while the company figures out what has to be done to avoid the accidents that may result from unintended acceleration.
Toyota will be sending out letters on Friday. In a recent memo, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its findings of an Aug. 28 accident involving a runaway Lexus ES 350 in San Diego that killed four people. The initial suspicion had been that a floor mat caught on the accelerator and this caused the excessive speed, leading to the accident. Continued after the jump!
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