On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:11:08 -0000, Rob Graham
wrote:

On 05/02/2010 09:05, Duncan Wood wrote:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:29:22 -0000, GB wrote:

David Taylor wrote:
On 2010-02-04, GB wrote:
Say your accelerator jammed. Well, how long would it take you to
figure this out and depress the clutch/put it into neutral?
Especially an experienced driver like a highway patrolman. 5
seconds? Well, surely not long enough to make a 911 call.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7012913.ece


What's actually going on here? Suicide, and he wanted to take his
family with him?

Automatic, keyless ignition.

An auto box without a neutral position on the selector?




& ~I've yet to see a keyless ignition you can't turn off, or a Toyota
that wouldn't stop if you stood on the footbrake in 5th. Thereagain
there are some people who are too daft to try turning off the ignition
or puttung the car into neutral.

If your accelerator is jammed down and you declutch or put the car into
neutral I guess the engine would blow up now that the load has been
taken off it. It seems to me that the only sensible course of action is
to switch it off.

Rob Graham

Not on any engine made in the last 15 years, all diesels, everything with
electronic fuel injection & quite a lot of cars before that have a rev
limiter.

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Duncan Wood