lol cop slowed down runaway prius

surfsupl · Mar 14, 2010

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Saw on fox news lastnight, That the Pruis dude was $700,000 in debt and was late on his car notes...This was a scam to get toyota to pay for his pruis.
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................their are always two sides to every story and motive.............I wonder what the lady was going through who claimed while backing out of her driveway last week the accelerator got stuck while in reverse and caused her to crash through a fence across the street?.............maybe the neighbor wanted a new fence?...................

mntbiker2008 · Mar 14, 2010

lowzone said: ↑

i could deal with that....fines and costs, just tack it onto his already growing bad financial moves.

BTW, what kind of bike do you ride?
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x2 i was wondering the same thing. looks like a harley but im not sure

Evil Monkey · Mar 14, 2010

mntbiker2008[OP] said: ↑

x2 i was wondering the same thing. looks like a harley but im not sure
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Kawasaki Vulcan. Harley bags are more squared and don't swoop as much.

mntbiker2008 · Mar 14, 2010

Evil Monkey said: ↑

Kawasaki Vulcan. Harley bags are more squared and don't swoop as much.
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that was my next guess. lol. i just sold my 83 shadow 750... thing was gonna need a full engine rebuild. bastard i bought it from back in the fall doctored it up so i couldnt really tell anything wrong. now im looking for either a newer vulcan,shadow, or v star

Caddmannq · Mar 15, 2010

Here's some better photo guys. It's a 2004 Kawasaki Vulcan Nomad 1500cc

mntbiker2008 · Mar 15, 2010

^^^^nice bike!

Crom · Mar 18, 2010

Report fails to shed light on San Diego runaway Prius

Posted: Mar 18, 2010 7:16 AM PDT <em class="wnDate">Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:16 AM EST</em> Updated: Mar 18, 2010 8:28 AM PDT <em class="wnDate">Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:28 AM EST</em>

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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a runway Toyota Prius last week arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with emergency lights on.
The Border Patrol presence raises the prospect that there were other witnesses. It is one of the few new details in a report released Wednesday by the CHP that is consistent with what the CHP and the driver, James Sikes, have previously said.
But the seven-page CHP report, accompanied by dozens of photos, sheds no new light on wildly divergent explanations from Toyota Motor Corp. and Sikes about what happened when the driver called 911 on March 8 to report that his gas pedal was stuck on a California freeway, sending him to speeds topping 90 mph.
Toyota has dismissed Sikes' account, saying its tests show he pressed the gas and brakes rapidly 250 times, the maximum amount of data that the car's self-diagnostic system captures.
The report revisits the harrowing ride that Sikes and CHP Officer Todd Neibert described to reporters shortly after the episode on Interstate 8, east of San Diego.
Neibert wrote that he approached the Prius from behind to find a Border Patrol agent in an unmarked Chevrolet Tahoe with emergency lights illuminated from the rear window.
"It was staying ahead of us and it was later determined that the agent driving the Chevrolet Tahoe was aware of the situation," Neibert wrote.
The Prius brake lights were on "for a period of time and would turn off, indicating the driver was possibly pumping the brakes," Neibert wrote. "I was within ¼ mile of the vehicle and could smell the heated brakes which indicated they had been used extensively."
Neibert told Sikes to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head from side to side, indicating to the officer that it didn't work or he couldn't do it. Sikes later told reporters he didn't shift to neutral because worried he might go into reverse or flip.
Neibert spoke on his radio with colleagues about how to rescue Sikes as the car was less than 20 miles from steep downhill grade and a sharp left turn.
"If the Prius made it to that location, the ultimate result would have most likely led to a catastrophic ending," the officer wrote.
The officer said the Prius reached 95 mph before passing two trucks. As they went uphill, he told Sikes to apply the foot brake and parking brake simultaneously, and the car gradually slowed.
Neibert had passed the Prius and was prepared to stop the car with his rear bumper but Sikes came to a stop without help, according to the report. Sikes was not injured.
After stopping, Sikes told Neibert he tried three times to lift the gas pedal with his hand but was unsuccessful.
"He thought he was going to die and knew that there were numerous areas where there were steep cliffs and embankments along with sharp curves," the officer wrote.
Sikes was initially reluctant to speak with reporters, but the officer urged him to go to the El Cajon station to "put the media at ease," according to the report.
"I advised him the media would most likely seek him out if he did not speak to them voluntarily," Neibert wrote.
Toyota has stopped short of saying that Sikes fabricated his story but has said his version of events is inconsistent with its technical findings. Tracy Segal, a company spokeswoman, said late Wednesday she had no immediate comment on the CHP report because she had not received a copy.
The episode was among the highest-profile headaches Toyota has suffered in recent months. It recalled more than 8 million cars and trucks worldwide because gas pedals can become stuck in the down position or be snagged by floor mats. Dozens of Toyota drivers have reported problems even after their cars were supposedly fixed.
The report does not say how long the Border Patrol agent was in Sikes' proximity or whether the agent saw anything significant. CHP spokesman Brian Pennings said the agency is attempting to get a statement from the agent.
The CHP officer does not recall the agent stopping after Sikes safely came to a stop, Pennings said. He said the CHP had notified the Border Patrol after the driver called 911.
Pennings reaffirmed CHP's position that no evidence has emerged to doubt Sikes' version of events.
The report was released the same day that investigators from Toyota and the U.S. government inspected a crashed 2005 Prius in a suburb of New York City to see if a black box-like device or its wreckage could point to problems with the brakes or accelerator.
The black box, known as an event data recorder, yielded information on engine speed and pedal position, Toyota spokesman Wade Hoyt said. Investigators were expected to return Thursday.
A housekeeper who was driving the car told police that it sped up on its own as she eased forward down her employer's driveway on March 9 and hit a wall across the street. She was not hurt. Harrison Police Department Capt. Anthony Marraccini said driver error had not been ruled out or indicated.
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http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?s=12162862&clienttype=printable

05silverTaco · Mar 18, 2010

Not to support his story as I think it is very fishey, I work as a mechanic at a Honda dealer. Well a couple of weeks ago I worked on my first Used Car Toyota Prius. The shifter in the car is not a typical shifter. It is located center in the dash about where the radio is in our Tacoma's. It also doesn't list a neutral. If someone has a picture of the shifter please post it so the rest of you can get an Idea what it looks like and why he would say if he put it in neutral he thought it might flip. The shifter has park and drive basicaly. When stopped it goes into park but when rolling I think it might go into neutral but did not try it for my self.

Again I still think this is a scam of some sort. But having driven one it is weird. And no I did not try stepping on gas and brake at the same time.

vince

mntbiker2008 · Mar 18, 2010

05silverTaco · Mar 18, 2010

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Confused me too when I went to drive the vehicle. If I remember right the shifter came back up to the center or N position after you would pull it down to D or push it up to R. I think to put it in N you would have to move it right and then back to N if you were in Drive. Now if you were used to driving the car you would know the in and outs of the controls. But having only drove one one time it sure was confusing.

vince

mntbiker2008 · Mar 18, 2010

05silverTaco said: ↑

Confused me too when I went to drive the vehicle. If I remember right the shifter came back up to the center or N position after you would pull it down to D or push it up to R. I think to put it in N you would have to move it right and then back to N if you were in Drive. Now if you were used to driving the car you would know the in and outs of the controls. But having only drove one one time it sure was confusing.

vince
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yeh i remember my mom got a rental camry hybrid. it was really weird at first... i didnt like it at all. took it on the highway and said no way in hell will i ever buy something like this. everything acted very strange and not to mention the road noise was extremely loud. but the trans. through me off for a minute. lol

lowzone · Mar 19, 2010

this brings up the point of READING the owners manual. Especially on something new with this type of controls. I drove a Benz yesterday, 2009 C330 or somthing like that, low end model....i couldnt figure out the radio...nor did i see one. at 95 mph is NOT the time to try to figure it out. I was asked to drive to MILFs to the bar, ones my neighbor yeah anyway, this guy had the car since 2008...going on 3 years. If my info i read 1st hand is right, his car is a LEASE, so guess whats coming up....yup hes going to have to turn the car in and he stated 35k miles so hes within the milage but wear and tear or have to get another car and hes in DEBT.....hes trying to minipulate Toyota for a new car...watch...

so he knows how to use the car and shift it into NEUTRAL, hes had it almost 3 years. Granted, a few tacoma members never saw the pop out tray on the left of the steering wheel either and our trucks are around for 5 years

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