ram it into park! i hope she had a handsfree kit! it happened to my mate before with me in his xa coupe middle of wellington. t boned a car hit a concrete fence and lamp post. that hurt.
freedomaira320,
Aug 28, 7:21am
One assumes she tried this, given it went on for 35 minutes and she was in contact with state troopers all the way. These things happen often enough these days to realise that there isn't an easy fix. With all the electronics we have in our cars nowadays it is conceivable that a number of faults can conspire together to create a hazard that can't be easily overcome. Just turn the key off! What say the key won't turn, or if it does it locks the steering, or the key breaks! Just ram it into neutral or park! What say the lever has been electronically locked. Just stand on the brakes! Maybe effective for a bit, but a few hundred horsepower of revving motor is a lot to overcome. In 99.9% of cases one one those remedies will work, but clearly every now and again they won't.
lugee,
Aug 28, 7:27am
Bit optimistic for a Kia Sorrento.
Just another reason manuals are safer, at least then you always have a mechanically controllable connect ion between the engine and transmission.
freedomaira320,
Aug 28, 7:31am
Fair enough. 192hp to be exact.
shuddupowh,
Aug 28, 7:33am
Turning the key to the acc position will not lock the wheel, it will stop the motor. Simple. People seriously need to think about what they doing. Or even just slam on the brakes. I'd rather my engine rev'd out and blow up rather than smash into other cars causing thousands of $s of damage.
ninja_man,
Aug 28, 7:35am
i think she would have tried the brakes.
slater-bug,
Aug 28, 7:58am
so why would the brake lights that appear to work perfectly in the closing scene have no shown up at any time previous, !
fiatracer,
Aug 28, 8:51am
quite likely to be one of them newfangled key card / start-stop button arrangements rather than a key. You know, the setups that have a big button that says STOP on it.
dave653,
Aug 28, 9:00am
Poxy new fangled cars! Friend had an '89 Galant, I needed to move it about 6 feet, but. HAD to start the damn thing and DRIVE IT! But yeah, she did well to control it, hitting the grass at that speed!
attitudedesignz,
Aug 28, 9:20am
OMFG, can you imagine how much Kia is going to get bent over with the law suit that will come.and believe me.it will come and it will be HHUUGGEE.
Check this suit out to see how Americans LOVE to blame someone for stuff that just happens.
It appears this Kia had the start/stop button, and a proximity key. So, no physical key to turn back one click. Some new cars don't have a mechanical linkage between the shifter and transmission- the shifter is just a switch that sends a signal to the BCM asking if it would please send a signal to the ECM to tell it to shift the trans whenever it has a few free moments to do so and if it feels like it. some cars won't allow you to throw it in neutral at WFO, you know, as a safety feature. Hitting the start/stop button wouldn't stop the car unless she had read the owner's manual which apparently states that the engine can be shut off with the shifter in D by either holding the button down for more than 2 seconds or pressing it 3 times in 3 seconds. Perhaps the dispatcher could have Googled it.
"(After a 35-minute ordeal . ).Ms Ubelstad was able to stop her car by following the troopers' directions to lift up the accelerator while applying the brake." Can anyone explain this !(. makes no sense to me, .am I missing the bleeding obvious , - or is it just worded badly ! )
fiatracer,
Aug 28, 9:46am
floor mat.
fiatracer,
Aug 28, 9:49am
Have seen tests showing that an alarming percentage of drivers only press the brakes gently, never hard enough to invoke ABS. Reminds me of my 8yo driving my paddock car - would delicately press brake. I had to explain that the harder you press, the more aggressively the brakes are applied. Wasn't intuitive to an 8yo - isn't to many licenced drivers.
attitudedesignz,
Aug 28, 9:50am
Throw "proximity key" out the window then push 'stop' button!
stevexc,
Aug 28, 10:57am
My wife's friend smashed in to the back of another car because of this.She simply did not understand that you can apply more force to the brakes to stop the car sooner.
trdbzr,
Aug 28, 11:16am
Uhmmm why didn't she try this initially!
"After a 35-minute ordeal covering 95km, Ms Ubelstad was able to stop her car by following the troopers' directions to lift up the accelerator while applying the brake."
elect70,
Aug 28, 1:09pm
Happened to mewhile passing a carthecable hadjammedon,XDp van,braked & turned key off&stoppednormally .Butdrivers arent taught what to do in emergencysituationsnot even a panic stop, espwomen, just know how todrive it,panicwhen something goes wrong
flack88,
Aug 28, 1:13pm
IT would be fly by wire wouldnt it>! being that late model,or are some still using cables!
hopie,
Aug 28, 1:26pm
ive also had this happen. Mrs asked me to back car down the drive, jump in start her up, put it in R, bit of gas approch first corner so brake abit. WTF. one of her high heels under the brake pedal. throw it into N and rip the hand brake but still hit the fence, she was like 'blah blah blah my car' to at which point i reached down grabbed her shoe and threw it into the paddock.
jesus did I pay for that.
noswalg,
Aug 28, 2:07pm
To me it sounds like the reporter says "pull the accelerator and hit the brakes at the same time" whatever that means, Modern vehicles aren't built with linkages and cables anymore just sensors, switches and computers. How many people have had their computer freeze and require a reboot! This certainly isn't the first time it's happened remember the off duty California highway patrol guy in the Lexus! Here's the 911 call from that crash http://www.momlogic.com/2009/09/911_call_released_in_stuck_accelerator_crash.php
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