Re: Daily gripe: Car with stuck accelerator

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From: ken$corn
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:00

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Walt Horning <whorning@pipeline.com> wrote:
: On the news this morning, they played parts of a recording of a lady
: who called 911 from her cell phone. Seems her accelerator got stuck
: and her brakes failed all at once or were unable to overpower the
: engine.

: There was a dramatic rescue where a police in squad car pulled in
: front of her and used his car to brake hers to a stop.

: Funny how no one knew what you are to do in a case like this, namely
: to turn off the ignition (one click only so it does not lock your
: steering wheel) and the car will coast to a stop. Now you may want to
: down shift one gear at a time until you get the car stopped. With
: automatic it may never completely stop if going down hill, but that's
: better that whizzing along with a stuck accelerator.


-- 
Kenneth T. Cornelius  
kencorn@clark.net

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