Toyota Woes

There are now questions surrounding how long Toyota took to investigate the problem of sometimes fatal sticking gas pedals while accidents continued.

Documents filed with the federal government by Toyota show the world’s largest automaker first received field reports of the sticking gas pedals more than two years ago and, by October 2009 saw the problem grow.

In January, Toyota temporarily suspended sales and production of eight popular car models and announced a “voluntary” recall of 2.3 million cars, some models as old as 2005.

This follows a recall in November that affected floor mats in more than 4 million cars. The floor mats interacted poorly with the gas pedal.

The National Traffic Safety Administration accused the automaker of “inaccurate and misleading information” because Toyota implied the agency had concluded that cars without mats were safe.

That was not the case. Indeed, the NHTSA cited more problems and that removing the floor mate was merely an interim solution, that it didn’t fix the underlying problem.

That’s not all. In November, the automaker had to recall 110,000 Toyota Tundra pickups because spare tires kept falling off the storage beam under the cargo bed, crashing into traffic.

ABC News has reported on this extensively. For those reports, and more on runaway Toyotas, you can go here.

To find out if your car is affected by the recall, go here.

If you or a loved one has been involved in a car wreck in a Toyota, contact a Texas car wreck attorney at Cappolino Dodd Krebbs LLP immediately for a no-cost consultation. It is important that evidence detailing the car wreck be properly preserved.