{"id":695417,"date":"2010-03-18T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003456"},"modified":"2010-03-18T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:50:25","slug":"nhtsa-no-evidence-of-braking-in-ny-prius-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695417","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA: No Evidence Of Braking In NY Prius Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/mymanakia2-thumb-250x333-38341.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Looks like those who called &#8220;driver error&#8221; on the Prius that <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/yet-another-prius-goes-rogue-smashes-into-wall.html\" >slammed into a stone wall in upstate New York a couple weeks back<\/a> might have reason to boast. An e-mail from NHTSA seems to negate the driver&#8217;s claims that she attempted to brake during the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Reads the NHTSA message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Information retrieved from the vehicle&#8217;s onboard computer systems indicated there was no application of the brakes and the throttle was fully open.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You might also remember from this case that the local police chief <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/runaway-prius-was-on-its-way-to-dealership-before-crash.html\" >publicly defended the driver<\/a> and that he wasn&#8217;t prepared to release the car until after he&#8217;d closed his investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/driveon\/post\/2010\/03\/feds-throttle-wide-open-no-brakes-in-ny-prius-crash\/1\" >Feds say no brakes, full throttle in N.Y. runaway Toyota Prius crash<\/a> [USA Today]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like those who called &#8220;driver error&#8221; on the Prius that slammed into a stone wall in upstate New York a couple weeks back might have reason to boast. An e-mail from NHTSA seems to negate the driver&#8217;s claims that she attempted to brake during the incident. Reads the NHTSA message: Information retrieved from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UUp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}