Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 1997 Ford Escort

Daughter was driving car, had a tire blow out, and car suddenly accelerated out of control. She tried shifting gears, using brakes, and pulling parking brake to no avail. She crashed into parked cars after traveling about 200 yards uphill. Witnesses say she was going about 30 to 40 mph. After the blowout, which happened as she was leaving a stop. Car will not be repaired, will be junked. It is too dangerous for anyone to drive.

While pulling into parking lot with foot on the brake the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a building, again with foot on brake the consumer put the vehicle into reverse and the vehicle accelerated backwards and crashed into a sand pile and building, the sandpile plugged the tailed pipe causing vehicle to stall, accident resulted in 1 injury. Nlm.

Idle air control valve failure resuliting in idle being erretic will race up to 2,500 rpm by it's self and when in gear sudden acceleration also engine fan will not shut off even when key is off.

Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration on two occasions, first incident resulted in collision with property. Mjs.

Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration resulting in vehicle collision.

Sudden acceleration on several occasions, on two occasion minor accidents occurred.

Vehicle had unwanted acceleration with the automatic transmission due to stuck throttle, causing extended stopping distances and difficulty in steering control.

Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration on several occasions.