general problems of the 2013 Subaru Forester

On 4/3/21 at approximately 1:30 pm, the 2013 Subaru forrester was slowly backed out of the garage, gear was in reverse, foot on accelerator with speed of <1 mph; just enough momentum to get car out of garage, down driveway and onto the street. While still in reverse, the car was positioned onto the street to drive forward in an eastward direction. Before the gearshift could be moved from reverse to drive (foot was not on accelerator at the time), the car unexpectedly surged backwards across the street went up an embankment cutting into neighbor's yard and hit a parked car in the neighbor's driveway and stopped. The floormat on driver's side lay flush/flat against the floor, there was no obstruction by the floormat or any object to the gas or brake pedal. Driver had seatbelt on and sustained minor injuries (bump on head and elbow, abrasion from seatbelt, and back pain) due to hitting parked car. Subaru had to be towed on a flatbed truck. It looked like the axel was broken, right front tire and left rear tire were misaligned, and damage to rear bumper. See photos.

As I began to back my bosses car out of the driveway, I looked out of my left mirror to follow the curve of the driveway in order to direct me. I didn't see anything behind me, so I proceeded to continue down the driveway, and then I felt a bump. Then I saw in the camera that I must have hit a van in that was parked in the driveway. The back doors of the van were open. Then I decided that I needed to put the car in drive and park my car so I could get out and make sure I didn't hurt anyone. As I put the vehicle in drive, it made a loud winding noise and lurched forward. It then proceeded to accelerate and pick up speed in the driveway. As I became parallel with the other vehicle parked in the owners driveway, the vehicle I was driving was still picking up speed so I put the car in park and put on the brakes so I could stop the vehicle, although within seconds I was crashing through the back yard fence. The vehicle proceeded to pick up speed. I was putting a lot of pressure on the brakes but it was not making any difference. I thought of swerving the vehicle to the left, but I was afraid of there being children in the other yard so I quickly made the decision to hit the tree so I could spare any possible lives and stop the vehicle completely. As soon as I realized I crashed the vehicle into the tree, I immediately got out so I could see what happened. I kept repeating to myself �why didn't it stop?� I could not understand after doing everything in my mind to stop the car, that nothing was successful. I did what I thought was the best decision as much as I could within those chaotic moments. I just wanted to stop the car and not harm in people in the process. I hit the tree at with enough velocity that the air bag deployed and I broke my leg in 3 places. Thanks jennifer small.

I was doing roughly 25/30 miles and my car accelerated to a much faster speed and higher rpm's causing me to jam on the brakes.

While backing into a garage there was a uncontrolable acceleration causing damage the the rear end of the car and items stored in the garage. 8js.

The contact owns a 2013 Subaru Forester (n/a). The contact stated that while driving 10 mph, the vehicle independently accelerated to 30 mph. The vehicle was towed to the dealer for diagnosis and the contact was informed that the floor mats were responsible for the failure. The contact did not believe that the floor mats were the cause of the failure. There were no further diagnostics performed on the vehicle. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 200. . . Updated 01/30/13 updated 2/4/2013.