Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2006 Lexus Rx400h

The contact owns a 2006 Lexus Rx400h. The contact stated that while parked with the engine in operation, the brake pedal was depressed and the vehicle unexpectedly accelerated, crashing into a residential garage door. There were no injuries and a police report was not filed. The vehicle was towed to a collision center for repairs to the body damage. The vehicle was not inspected for the cause of the acceleration failure. The manufacturer was not notified of the defect. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000.

This is a sudden acceleration/unintended acceleration incident. I turned off of a major road into a small, crowded parking lot. As I slowly pulled into an available space (with a car parked on each side of me), the car suddenly accelerated. Although I kept jamming on the brakes as hard as I could, they did not stop the car--it kept going forward. The car went over the wooden railroad tie at the end of the parking spot and crashed through a wood fence. The only reason the car finally stopped is due to the railroad tie, which slowed the car at the rear axle as the front of the car hung in the air.

As I was pulling into my parking space at work the car suddenly accelerated as I was braking. The car would not stop no matter how hard I pressed on the brake pedal. The acceleration caused me to slam into the wall of my office building and bounced the car back 3-4 feet. At the time of the incident I was in total shock and had hit my leg against the panel during the crash. As the day progressed I started feeling more and more pain and discomfort throughout my neck, shoulders and chest area. This was the first time I have ever felt a sudden acceleration of the car without pressing on the gas pedal. Now that this has happened I have realized occasionally when I press on the brake pedal the car doesn't slow down immediately. Whether this has anything to do with the incident is beyond me. The car was later towed to longo Lexus in el monte, CA for I no longer feel safe driving it. Nothing has been done to correct this failure.

Following are the series of events on November 11, 2009: 1. I was looking for a parking space in the parking garage of university of maryland. 2. I found one open space on my left. 3. I applied the brakes and slowed down my car to almost zero speed. 4. I turned the steering wheel to left towards the parking space. 5. I slowly released the brakes to let the car slowly roll into the parking space. 6. Suddenly my car experienced sudden acceleration. 7. I did not understand what happened. I tried my best to apply the brakes. 8. Before, I could realize what happened, the car banged into the parking garage wall around 3 meters ahead of me and stopped after the impact. 9. The impact was so bad that the airbags popped out. 10. Smoke started coming out of the hood. 11. I suffered severe whiplash injury in my neck. 12. Not only this, the place where it all happened was almost 4 stories high in parking garage. Had the wall in-front of me given away, I would have fallen almost 4 stories down with the car. 13. I was fortunate enough to survive the crash without any severe injury. 14. For a few seconds, I was totally blank, then I tried opening the driver side door, but it was stuck. 15. I pushed it hard, and door opened slightly. 16. I turned off the engine, took the keys out. 17. I rushed out of the car and called my insurance company. 18. The insurance company (geico) sent someone to tow away the car. 19. The car was towed away to collision center. 20. After spending more than a month and around usd 18,000. 00, I got my car back on December 16th 2009 from the collision center.

Lexus RX 400h accelerated suddenly as I was pulling into a parking space, and crashed into a brick building. Incurred $10,000 damage to vehicle as a result of unexplained acceleration. Never has happened again-took to Lexus dealer to have it checked after damages repaired at body shop. The consumer and her daughter suffered minor injuries. Updated 05/04/10.

2006 Lexus Rx400h revved and raced into another vehicle without warning. The consumer contacted the manufacturer about the sudden acceleration. The manufacturer agreed to have a rep inspect the vehicle but mentioned that it would take six weeks to two months before it could be inspected. Nm.