Investigators: New York Prius crash likely driver error
From Evan Buxbaum, CNN
March 22, 2010 7:50 p.m. EDT
Authorities say the data recorder of this Prius shows the accelerator, not the brake, was engaged.
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The wrecked 2005 Prius' data recorder showed no indication of brake compression.
Police say there was no indication the driver engaged the brake.
Police say the data was collected in a cooperative effort with NHTSA and Toyota.
"A Toyota Prius was not the cause of a March 9 crash in Harrison, New York, said authorities citing "black and white" results in their investigation."
"Harrison, New York, Police Capt. Anthony Marraccini revealed at a news conference Monday that evidence extracted from the wrecked 2005 Prius' data recorder showed no indication of brake compression as the car headed toward a stone wall. Rather, the accelerator was pressed 100 percent, authorities said."
"Toyota has been very cooperative," said Marraccini. "There's no possibility of any distortion of this data," he continued. "These are the facts that surround this."
" the driver may have been stepping on the accelerator, instead of the brake as she told police."
""We do see these accidents on occasion," Marraccini said Monday."
"I think with all this hype about Toyota, people are just looking to point fingers," he said."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/22/ny.prius.crash.probe/
