Safety Research & Strategies has completed our latest review of Toyota unintended acceleration complaint data, and they confirm that Toyota owners are still reporting SUA incidents – even those who had taken their vehicles in for the recall repairs.
Our database consists of incidents from the following sources:
– Consumer complaints to NHTSA through January 5, 2011
– Toyota-submitted claims from several NHTSA investigations into unintended acceleration
– Incidents reported by media organizations
– Consumer contacts made to our organization and others that are reporting incidents that they have received.
Every effort has been made to identify duplicate records and combine them. However, often the reports do not provide enough detail to link incidents to other reports. There are likely some duplicates among our records – if there are, they are few. Continue reading