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California highway patrolman mark saylor and before the crash his brother-in-law called 911 from the back seat of the car as it screamed down the highway. >> were going 120 in mission gorge, were in trouble. theres no brakes. were approaching the interstate. hold on. >> brace. >> pray. >> hello? >> hello? >> no one is exactly sure what caused the lks us to malfunction on that day but some auto safety experts are rapidly coming to the conclusion that toyota has a problem with the electronics in s...

Allen comforted the critically injured passenger, barbara swartz. >> she talked about how she kept yelling at her friend to slow down and try to get it to stop, and her friend kept telling her it wont stop, when wont stop. >> swartz later died of her injuries. her family believes the fatal crash was caused by a flaw in the throttle system. a lawsuit is pending. >> we dont know exactly where that camry started to malfunction. the wreck was down that way, the par passed through here and as they pa...

And sends signals to the throttle. its the computer operating the throttle, not your foot. >> whats to say the wires cant get crossed or pick up signals from other sources, electromagnetic forces. >> toyota has consistency said they put them through millions of hours of testing. this week they released a video. toyota has never been able to preproduce sudden acceleration. considering how random it is, it will take testing 36 vehicles, 24/7 for ten years to rerep my indicate the problem. >> anybo...

In washington, d.c. meeting with federal regulators and congressional investigators. toyota continues to say it is confident electronics are not causing cars to accelerate suddenly. this is not just toyota but many automakers experiencing this problem, including ford. the british experts say they do believe its the electronics. one is considered a leading expert in the area. >> automakers claim because they can find no defect after sudden acceleration then the sudden acceleration cannot be cause...

Chinas move in a chess match with google that could determine their future there. beijing could go further by blocking access to it. google has redirected all search traffic for main land china to its hong kong site rather than pulling out of china. wherever the dispute heads next, it wont affect relations with the u.s. government. what did toyota know and when did it know it? a popular questions these days. cnns investigation team has obtained an internal toyota memo that changes the timeline...

The computerme. it doesnt say anything about formats. >> reporter: the document was given to cnn by a group of attorneys now seeking a nationwide class action lawsuit against toyota. >> we brought the document to clarence ditlow. he says the document, not previously made public, is an indication toyota knew much earlier about an electronic connection to sudden acceleration. he says the service bulletin was apparently hidden from the public, not only by toyota but by the national highway traffic ...

♪ welcome back to the most news in the morning. an exclusive report from our special investigations unit. it is the document that toyota did not want you to see. and cnn has it. >> so do attorneys trying to sue toyota. they claim its a smoking gun, that it proves the auto giant and federal government conspired to keep critical safety information from the car buying public. heres drew griffith. >> reporter: this is the document, a clear warning sign from august 2002, nearly eight years ago. t...

Sudden acceleration and he says the service bulletin was parentally hidden frparent apparently hid bin toyota and the national traffic highway association. the service bulletin, those sent to every toyota dealer and sent to nhtsa was never made public. >> the government is really, you know, hiding this information from the consumer. theyre in a conspiracy with the auto industry to keep these out of the public sight. >> reporter: nhtsa declined comment. the lawyers now suing toyota claim that thi...

Vigorously. howard and his legal team will appear in a courtroom later this week to convince a federal judge to combine the 88 individual lawsuits filed against toyota into one giant class action litigation. late yesterday evening we got a second statement from toyota. this one acknowledging that it did have two separate service bulletins in 2002 and 2003 model camries and said it involved driving feeling a slight delay then a momentary surge in acceleration. the company siz it fixed the problem...

Shows the sudden acceleration problem has been around far longer than the company would like to admit and past repairs had nothing to do with sticky gas pedals. drew griffin reports. >> reporter: this is the document from august 2002, nearly eight years ago. toyota had a sudden acceleration problem and that according to toyotas own service bulletin, the problem was electronic. >> if you look at this document, it says electronics. it says the fix is reprogramming the computer. it doesnt say anyth...