Toyota Orders Flooring Mat Inspection After Fateful Fall
Mismatched floor mats in . Lexus ES 350 dealer courtesy car are being blamed for an August 28. crash that took the lives of Mark Saylor, his wife, daughter and brother-in-law. Saylor,.45, was ..19-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol.
Tomorrow Toyota will issue an order to 1,400 Toyota and Lexus dealerships to inspect the floor mats in all their new, used and loaner vehicles to make sure all mats fit properly.
. non-standard, all-weather floor mat in the driver foot well of the ES 350 apparently became caught under the gas pedal and Saylor wasn'. able to free it. The Lexus was reportedly moving at ..120-mph clip on California Highway 125 when it hit an SUV, launched off an embankment and rolled multiple times before bursting into flames. The SUV driver survived with moderate injuries.
It'. unclear why Saylor wasn'. able to put the transmission in neutral. This story is all the more sad, because . passenger in the car called 911 during the incident reporting that the ES had . stuck accelerator and no brakes. The call ends with someone telling people in the car to hold on and pray, followed by . woman'. scream.
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