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Old 05-09-12, 09:58 PM
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Default Unintended acceleration of a Hyundai Sonata caught on camera

Crashing at 130km/h and resulting in serious injuries.


Story in Japanese:
http://www.tocd.org/news2ch/r.cgi/en...ws/1336549709/
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Old 05-09-12, 10:04 PM
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would have been better off hitting the car in front of them at the start
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Old 05-09-12, 10:38 PM
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Something looks fishy there....

But hopefully everyone makes a full recovery. That was a pretty damn hard hit!
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Old 05-09-12, 10:40 PM
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BS, way to relaxed, it was planned
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^ That and the fact that there was plenty of space between that Hyundai and the car in front at the beginning of the video makes it look fishy to me...
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Originally Posted by KillaIS250
Something looks fishy there....
Seems like 30 seconds is enough time to put the car in neutral and step on the brake???
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Old 05-09-12, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by KillaIS250
Something looks fishy there....
Luckily, a video camera complete with timing info was all cued up and ready???
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Old 05-09-12, 10:59 PM
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Yea unless the who thing is ghost accelerating... Im calling shanangins here. I get trying to avoid first wreck with car right in front of you but after not being able to stop and gaining speed its time to find a good place to land this bird.
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Old 05-09-12, 11:01 PM
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Yeah i'm calling BS on this one. Could have put it into neutral and hit the brakes or even turned the car off. He reacted way too quickly when the car started taking off maneuvering around that first car.
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Old 05-09-12, 11:26 PM
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Even if this was set up, how and why??? There had to have been someone in there that actually did get hurt really bad so why would they want to do that unless they were committing suicide!
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Old 05-09-12, 11:27 PM
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^Fishy indeed.. But one has to wonder what the purpose of doing all this would be.. aside from seriously hurting himself of course. There are much easier and less painful ways to commit suicide after all.

EDIT: Someone beat my question by a minute.
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Yeah looks fishy
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Old 05-10-12, 12:05 AM
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Originally Posted by -Samurai-
Even if this was set up, how and why??? There had to have been someone in there that actually did get hurt really bad so why would they want to do that unless they were committing suicide!
Possible lawsuit?
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Damn what an impact!!!
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Perhaps some crappy way of saying "its not just Japanese cars doing it!!"



Looks totally staged.
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