Product Liability
May 18, 2011
Toyota Buybacks Latest Discovery Dispute
Plaintiffs' lawyers suing Toyota over unintentional acceleration are seeking information about repurchased vehicles that they say could show that safety tests are faulty.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - In July 2009, a field technician at a Bay Area Toyota dealership reported a Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck had inexplicably accelerated to 95 miles per hour during a road test. The finding appeared to confirm the vehicle's owner's story that the car had accelerated wildly forcing him to veer off-road and crash to come to a stop.
The dealer report obtained by the Daily Journal has e...
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