Randy
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I don't think Toyota has made any info public on the car in the Lexus rental crash, but they settled with the family for $10M. Toyota specifically left the dealer out of those numbers and negotiations, so now the dealer will be going through a similiar settlement and/or lawsuit (a dealership employee was told about the sticking floormat issue by the previous rental/loaner customer, but evidently didn't do anything about it).
There's a few unanswered questions in my mind about this incident, especially why the CHP-trained officer driver got off the freeway at that particular exit going full speed because the exit offramp road intersects the cross-street with a "T" connector. A policeman friend of mine said the first thing they teach you in driving school is to turn the car into the "K" rail in the center of the freeway to slow it down, and this multi-year, multi-trained officer exited the freeway, ran right through a perpendicular intersection at full speed, hit the curb on the other side, went in the air, and landed in a dry riverbed on the other side, and then the car exploded.
I guess you never know what you'll do until it happens, but as full of panic as I might have been, I don't think I would have taken that offramp.
Such a tragedy for everyone involved....
There's a few unanswered questions in my mind about this incident, especially why the CHP-trained officer driver got off the freeway at that particular exit going full speed because the exit offramp road intersects the cross-street with a "T" connector. A policeman friend of mine said the first thing they teach you in driving school is to turn the car into the "K" rail in the center of the freeway to slow it down, and this multi-year, multi-trained officer exited the freeway, ran right through a perpendicular intersection at full speed, hit the curb on the other side, went in the air, and landed in a dry riverbed on the other side, and then the car exploded.
I guess you never know what you'll do until it happens, but as full of panic as I might have been, I don't think I would have taken that offramp.
Such a tragedy for everyone involved....