Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2014 Subaru Forester

At/about 1230 central time on 31 oct 2019, my wife (rebecca hines) experienced an uncommanded acceleration event in our 2014 Subaru Forester and narrowly escaped being killed. Context: my wife was taking the car through an automated carwash at the caseys gas station at 9911 s. 71st st in papillion ne. When she reached the end of the conveyor belt and when signalled by the attendant to move forward, she stepped on the brake and attempted to move the automatic transmission from n (neutral) to d (drive). She encountered resistance moving the gear lever but was able to move it to d. Upon doing so, the car abruptly accelerated and lurched forward despite her foot remaining on the brake. The car rapidly accelerated and tore through the closed garage door at the end of the carwash and continued outside, across an access road and up a small hill, before losing power and rolling backwards down the hill to stop in the access road. No other vehicles or persons were involved or injured. My wife was uninjured other than being sprayed by glass fragments from the windshield as it was punctured by the garage door as the car tore through it. Our insurance company (usaa) declared the car a total loss. Neither my wife nor I had ever experienced anything like this incident before; we both have excellent driving records. Weather at the time of this incident was clear, dry and sunny. The car to the best of our knowledge was in excellent mechanical condition. The papillion ne police dept responded and filed a report, and we filed a drivers motor vehicle accident report. Both are on file with the papillion ne police dept. There were also several witnesses to this incident per the police report.

On January 26, 2019, at 8:00 pm, in a parking deck at a shopping center, I was in a line of cars making a right turn into an aisle. I tapped the accelerator very lightly to move a few feet forward. The car unexpectedly and suddenly accelerated greatly, and I immediately put my foot on the brake as hard as possible to avoid hitting the car in front of me. I had to swerve to the left to avoid hitting the car in front of me because hitting the brake didn't immediately slow the car down. I was able to avoid hitting anything, but it was a frightening experience because the car was out of control. This was clearly a case of sudden unintended acceleration.

July 6, 2018 driving on city street when my foot had the brake depressed and the auto suddenly accelerated so much that I had to turn into a curb to avoid a collision with another vehicle - I hit a curb with one tire to avoid accident and had to get four new tires because it is awd. Today my brake was depressed and it accelerated when I was in reverse then attempting to get SUV into drive - driving down my daughter's driveway today, it accelerated so rapidly unintended that pressing the brake would not stop vehicle - engaged emergency brake and it still did not stop it - placed it into park and pressing brake continuously and emergency brake engaged, finally stopped the car at roadside after turning off ignition - very hazardous safety issue - lucky no one was hurt or killed - this SUV is a dangerous vehicle - having it towed by aaa tomorrow morning to dealer. What can I do about this? it has only 41,870 miles on it - bought it brand new from the dealer in may 2014 and I am only driver. Help!.

Car was parked in street. Started it and put it into reverse to back into a driveway. Car suddenly accelerated at high speed in reverse. I would have had to have stomped heavily on gas pedal to get it to that speed but I'm not sure I even touched it. Traveled 2-3 car lengths before I could stop it. Grateful no injuries or damage. Not related to car mats which were anchored in place.

When slowly entering home garage vehicle suddenly accelerated & despite standing on the break pedal & pulling the emergency break it crashed into table & work benches at front of area causing damage to furniture & damaging front of vehicle. Previously in November 2016 when pulling into highway rest area parking place the car suddenly accelerated, jumped the curb a & traveled 15' onto a grassy embankment before stopping with maximum breaking applied.

Vehicle was slowly entering a parking space, suddenly accelerated, jumping curb, crossing sidewalk and impacted a building. Car was then put into reverse, it accelerated in reverse and impacted an adjoining parked car. After the accident the area around the accelerator and brake were inspected and nothing was found that might have caused the brake or accelerator to stick or malfunction. The driver of the vehicle claims that her foot was not caught on the accelerator nor did her foot slip off the brake and accidentally hit the accelerator.

Unintended acceleration while coming to a stop in a parking space. The force of the acceleration threw the car over a curb and several feet into a heavy duty iron fence, which snapped. The car was coming to a stop.

2014 Subaru Forester. Attorney representing consumer writes in regards to vehicle sudden acceleration collision. As the consumer approached a handicap space, he slowed down to approximately 2-3 mph and when he removed his foot from the accelerator and applied the brake to stop, the vehicle accelerated rapidly and struck two parked vehicles and then came to a stop, the air bags did not deploy. The vehicle was totaled.

When switching from the brake to the accelerator, the vehicle surges forward. This happens after coming to a full stop and when switching from braking to acceleration at low speeds such as in city traffic. This issue happens randomly. Driver has been very aware of the amount of pressure applied to the accelerator and surging can occur with very little pressure. Because this occurs when moving forward at intersections, moving forward in heavy traffic, and while parking or leaving a parking slot, the chance of a collision is great. The most dangerous is to surge suddenly into an intersection when moving forward to see around obstacles blocking the driver's view of oncoming traffic.

Tl- the contact owns a 2014 Subaru Forester. The contact stated that while trying to park the vehicle the vehicle suddenly accelerated. The contact was unable to stop the vehicle until it hit a tree. The vehicle was towed to a dealer to have the body work repaired. The dealer had not determined the cause of the failure at the time of the complaint. The contact wanted the vehicle inspected. The current mileage was 12000. Rl.

I was making a routine visit to my mother at her apartment. Turned left into the complex then turned right and went up a small hill. At the top of the hill at no more than 5-10 mph I turned fairly sharply to the right to enter the parking space. At that point the vehicle suddenly accelerated and surged forward. The vehicle hit a tree approximately 15-20 feet away. The force of the crash caused the driver side airbag to deploy and the front end received extensive damage resulting in the total loss of the vehicle. I've been driving for over 30 years with no accidents and consider myself an excellent driver. Of course I questioned whether or not I could have hit the gas by mistake, but this visit is so routine and have made this same turn into the parking space so many times, I don't believe that is the case. It's hard to believe that the vehicle could have surged forward and hit the tree with that much force in such a short distance. Luckily there were no other people involved as I was alone in the vehicle. I can't help but wonder how much worse it could have been. I did report the incident to the Subaru dealer and will be making a report to the manufacturer Subaru of America.

The contact owns a 2014 Subaru Forester. The contact stated while entering a parking space at an unknown speed, the vehicle erroneously accelerated and crashed into the wall. There were no injuries. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was being repaired. The manufacturer was contacted about the failure. The failure mileage was not available.