Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2007 Honda Pilot

I was leaving a parking lot in my 2007 Honda Pilot and had backed out of my parking spot. I was about to turn right onto a side street and was going to make a left on a major road. There was a red light at the intersection. As I was pulling out onto the side street, my tire got stuck on the curb. I lightly pressed the accelerator to get over the hump and the car suddenly accelerated. An eye witness said it appeared that my car accelerated to 30 or 40 mph in just 2 or 3 seconds. I immediately lifted my foot off the accelerator and tried to apply the brake. The brakes did not work. The car continued accelerating even though my foot was not on the pedal. The only control I had over the car was the steering wheel. I was headed straight for a telephone pole and light fixture across the street opposite the parking lot. I believe I hit the telephone pole and light pole several times and then my car swung around in the opposite direction I was originally headed. The impact restored my car back to normal operation. The brakes and accelerator then resumed working again. The front bumper was ripped off my car, the front of the car was bashed in by the passenger side, the windshield had a crack, right front passenger door was no longer aligned and could only open a few inches, the mud flap for the right front tire was ripped off, the right sideview mirror was ripped off, both doors on the passenger side were crushed. The driver's side door could not be opened. The airbag deployed, seatbelt locked and the driver's side window completely shattered on impact. The eye witness was stopped at the intersection waiting for the light to turn green. He said it looked like a manufacturing defect and was shocked at how quickly the car accelerated. It appears that going over the bump and lightly applying the gas pedal afterwards triggered something in the car.

The contact owns a 2007 Honda Pilot. The contact was braking for a traffic stop when the vehicle abnormally accelerated. The contact was able to stop the unintended acceleration by abruptly depressing the brakes. The dealer was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer advised the vehicle would not be further inspected because the diagnostic test did not produce any failure codes. The contact stated the failure had occurred four times within six months. The contact stated his foot was on the brake pedal upon each occurrence of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 44,000 and the current mileage was approximately 50,000.