St. Pete driver blames humid gas pedal for Toyota crash

ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- A four car collide Monday night on U.S. 19 sent four people to the hospital.

The female driver of one of the vehicles, a belatedly model Toyota Camry, said the gas pedal stuck previous to the car flipped and wound up on its roof.

She just said it would not prevent. That was it, said observer Paul Jackson.

The car has been impounded by St. Petersburg police as part of the accident inquiry.

The injuries to those involved in the collide are said to not be serious.

Last night's crash comes on the heels of an statement by Toyota that a fix for potentially humid gas pedals on millions of cars.

Toyota's fix for the problem that led to the remember of millions of cars has not come soon enough to stop a consumer backlash in the U.S. and elsewhere that is battering its sales.

One of the automaker's pinnacle executives on Tuesday said the damage from the global recall of almost 4.6 million vehicles may be greater than previous quality problems because of the massive scale.

This is unprecedented in having caused this enormous problem for customers,said Shinichi Sasaki, who oversees excellence control at the world's No. 1 automaker.

He said it was too soon to put a number on the definitive cost of the recall. But Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto forecaster at UBS in Tokyo, estimated the recalls are likely to cost about $900 million, and missing sales are already costing Toyota another $155 million a week.

The recall to fix a gas pedal that can stick when miserable covers some 2.3 million vehicles in the United States alone, including a few of Toyota's best-selling models, such as the Camry and Corolla. The company has recalled millions extra because of floor mats that can catch the gas pedal.

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