Car Accelerates On Its Own Problems of 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.

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Sudden acceleration: car jumped forward over the kerb and hit another car when brake was being released during parking.

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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.

The contact states the vehicle has a loud roar when idling. The vehicle also accelerates rapidly on its own. He took the vehicle to an independent garage. The technician suggested a new speed control and an idle control module. This was replaced twice but did not correct the problem. A diagnostic check did not detect any codes. The dealer was unable to determine the cause of this problem. There have been no further repairs at this time. Updated 12/27/2005 - this problem seemed worse in cold weather. In order for the vehicle to idle down the consumer had to turn the vehicle off then turn it back on. The problem would sometimes resurface a few minutes later, a few weeks later or a few months later.

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

While leaving a parking structure the auto suddenly accelerated up to 50 mph and could not be stopped, not even the emergency brakes stopped the auto. Consumer pulled key out of ignition and then the auto came to a sudden stop.

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The vehicle suddenly accelerated while backing out and caused serious accident. Yh.

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.

The vehicle will not properly engage into reverse. When it does engage it accelerates suddenly . Dealer has inspeced and repaired the vehicle several times.

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