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Would lock. >> reporter: is there any doubt in your mind that the floor mats had nothing to do with what happened? >> the floor mat had nothing to do with yesterday's event, period. the floor mat didn't move. i won't drive that car again. i mean i have no problem with toyota, just i won't drive the prius. there's obviously a problem that needs to be corrected. >> reporter: jim sikes' prius is at this dealership in el cajon just outside san diego. toyota released a statement saying they are sending a technician here to take a look at the car and to help out in any way that they can. meanwhile t...

Netanyahu. we shall see. moving on, it's deja vu all over again for toyota. another day and yet another acceleration problem in a prius. this time in harrison, new york. a 56-year-old driver lost control of her 2005 hybrid model for 100 feet before slamming into a stone wall. the woman was hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries. harrison police say they've ruled out the floor mat as the cause. it was tied to the seat frame. and officials now have released the 911 tape containing the exchange between a dispatcher and that california driver from the other day who hit high speeds when h...

Guy could you take the foot off the accelerator and that's how it wound up on -- up on the freeways of san diego. talk about a scary moment there. toyota recently recalling the prius, 2004-2009 were among the cars involved in the floor mat problem, that's when the accelerator had the potential to get trapped in the floor moot -- floor mat. toyota says if that happens the car would be difficult to stop. the prius, however, not among the cars recalled because of a gas pedal that sticks in the down position without interference from the floor mat. it's time to figure this out. you can hear that g...

Harrison, new york, the evidence corroborates the woman's story and they in new york reached out to colleagues at the california highway patrol to compare and contrast the two cases. >> shepard: the prius models in those two cases were involved in the recall that blamed the floor mat for the acceleration. are investigators blaming floor mats again? >> the harrison case, the cops looked into this and they do not believe that this had anything to do with the floor mat. listen. >> it appeared that the mat had been serviced by a toyota dealership and was not only held in place by factory hook but ...

And it's still stuck? >> yes. >> okay. what is your name? >> jim. >> okay. i'm notifying an officer right now and you're going to stay on the phone with me, okay? is there anybody with you, are you by yourself? >> exple tiff. >> sir? >> the truck -- >> sir? >> sir? is it the floor mat that's stuck on your pedal? >> sir? can you hear me? martha: wow, you know, this is a scary piece of 911 tape and there are skeptics that wondered, is all this for real, this man sounds genuinely shaken up in this tape, he says that his prius raced at high speeds for more than 20 minutes. when you hear him talk a...