Toyota Cites Driver Errors in Acceleration Cases Toyota Motor Corp.’s investigation of accidents involving unintended acceleration where motorists said they pressed on the brake pedal shows that “virtually all” involved drivers who pushed the accelerator instead, a company spokesman said. Read more on BusinessWeek [Continue]

Driver OK, but livelihood shattered in rollover A Jeep Grand Cherokee was involved in an accident at Highway 50 East and Fairview Lane on Tuesday. While no one sustained serious physical injury in a wreck on Highway 50 East on Tuesday morning, one man’s livelihood was shattered. Read more on Nevada Appeal [Continue]

Mercedes Driver Cheats Death # adwatch This commercial about a driver in a new Mercedes E-Class cheating Death is amusing, but we’d expect the real Grim Reaper to pilot one of these head-on to finish the job. More » Read more on Jalopnik [Continue]

This is One Manly Porsche Driver # motorsports Rally driver, Road & Track photographer, and Porsche freak extraordinaire Jeff Zwart drove a 911 GT3 Cup road-race car up Pikes Peak last month. Is oppo-filled, high-res Porsche dirt video proof that Zwart is The Man? Yes, yes it is. More » Read more on Jalopnik [Continue]

Car plummets into creek bed after driver cut off A woman was recovering Wednesday morning after an overnight accident that sent a car plummetting 20 feet down into a creekbed. The woman was a passenger in a car being driven in the 6800 block of Ingram Road just after midnight. The driver told police he [Continue]