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Woman covers 59 Miles in 35 Minutes with a stuck accelerator
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1281779:MV8xOTcwMzQ5XzMzMDc1NzE1XzZBN0E3ODBE] [quote:NIMRUTH:MV8xOTcwMzQ5XzMzMDc1MzYxXzI1NUY4MjBG] i had a 3.8L chevy Lumina, driving 40. Needed to brake for a bus and bam, no brakes!! ABS flashing Accellerator stuck is scary but let me tell you, no brakes is true terror. I just bought it that day, always used stickshift and not used to the parkingbrake on the fucking left that you have to be an acrobat to kick down when you are 1.95m. No time, all i could do is hold the steering wheel with both hands, joked to my buddy; this is it, no brakes, brace for impact. Moved to the right of the bus at the last moment, only to find a concrete block for a lightingpole. totalled the car, half the bus ripped open but no injuries. Later i heard; if the ABS fails you are a dead duck, all brakes are gone. even you use parking brake or shift to neutral this is not going to slow you down significantly. Just gently hit the least lethal object to stay alive. I will never buy a chevy again. [/quote] yeah, but you can always down shift into low and use engine braking....better than nothing.. [/quote]
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Iowa woman whose accelerator got stuck as she drove up Interstate 35 in Missouri managed to control the vehicle even as speeds topped 110 mph and she was forced to the median several times to avoid other drivers, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said....
Osceola she was told to lift up the accelerator and push on the brake.
"And so I did that, and it slammed me from 119 mph to like nothing," she said.....
... Highway Patrol's headquarters in Jefferson City — told her to do, including trying to shift the vehicle into neutral. The vehicle had a "proximity key," Lyon said, which allows someone to start the car without a real key when they're close enough to it.
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