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The Associated Press is reporting that a newly released police report confirms details given by the driver of the runaway Prius, but does not address inconsistencies between the driver’s story and information provided by Toyota.<\/p>\n
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The account in the report is consistent with details the driver and CHP officer gave reporters shortly after the incident. Toyota, however, has cast doubt on the driver’s story.<\/p>\n
The report said the CHP officer trailed the Prius at 95 mph on Interstate 8 east of San Diego, and the car slowed to about 50 mph before the officer told driver Jim Sikes over a loudspeaker to hit the floor brake and emergency brake simultaneously.<\/p>\n
Sikes gradually came to an unassisted stop and was not injured.<\/p>\n
The lights were on “for a period of time and would turn off, indicating the driver was possibly pumping the brakes,” CHP Officer Todd Neibert wrote in his seven-page incident report.<\/p>\n
“I was within 1\/4 mile of the vehicle and could smell the heated brakes which indicated they had been used extensively,” it states, referring to 400 meters.<\/p>\n
The report offered some new details and dozens of photos about events that occurred after Sikes called police on March 8 to say his gas pedal got stuck on a San Diego-area freeway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The report also says that the driver initially didn’t want to speak to the media, but was encouraged to do so by the police officer. <\/p>\n
“I advised him the media would most likely seek him out if he did not speak to them voluntarily,” the officer wrote. <\/p>\n