general problems of the 2008 Subaru Legacy

My wife was gradually pulling out of a drive up window at a bank, where there is @ 30 feet before she got to the road and the car immediately accelerated at a high rate of speed, needing to slam on the brakes with all her strength, sliding sideways into the road. The accelerating discontinued when she slammed on the brakes. She then had to put the car in reverse to get out of oncoming traffic. She then drove home @ 1mile and is afraid to drive the car again. I checked and the floor mats are not in the way of the accelerated (they are fastened to the floor). I did not see anything else that would would bind the accelerator.

On Saturday, April 30th, I was turning around in a driveway, when all of the sudden my car took off. I had no time to react, except to try to use my brake. What stopped me was hitting a tree. My car is a 2008 Subaru Legacy with over $5,000 in damages. The police investigated and I was not cited. When I returned home, I looked on the internet to see if acceleration problems were common in Subaru's. I did find that foresters has problems; but I also found that some Legacy's also has acceleration problems, in particular I found a 2008 Subaru Legacy with this problem. I reported my findings to my insurance company and to Subaru. Subaru did not get back to me; my insurance company gave me your website to file a complaint. My logic is, why should I or my insurance company pay for something that was out of my control and was the fault of the car. Evidently, there are no recalls for Subaru's for this problem. I just hope it does not happen again - next time I might not be as lucky.