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Issues. deb is following the latest. he claims he was literally standing on brakes and couldn't stop the prius. >> that is not first time somebody used that description to describe how to stop their vehicle. if it is sudden acceleration, toyota has a car they can analyzed to see exactly what's going on. the driver was cruising east on interstate 8 when he tried to slow to pass another vehicle. well sikes pushed down on pedal and says it does something kind of funny. it wouldn't come back. the car accelerated to 90 miles an hour. he desperately tried to avoid other drivers and slow the car and ...

>> reporter: wolf, we are with jim sikes who is the gentleman in his 2008 prius down here in san diego county when it went out of control when the accelerator, jim, apparently took on a life of its own. explain what happened. >> that is exactly what happened. i was actually heading east on our interstate 8 in san diego, and i was pushing the gas, little extra, and in fact, very hard, to pass a car that was coming on the freeway. and as i did that, it just, the gas pedal felt weird and it went all of the way to fast -- i was actually going around cars and came close to hitting one semi-truck an...

From sticking down the accelerator pedal. federal investigators are headed to the scene to take a look at the vehicle and try to determine exactly what happened. as you indicated, 35 miles along the winding stretch of interstate 8 yesterday. this driver, james sipes, tried to control his car. he called 911. and had the help of a california highway patrol officer. here is what the officer and the driver had to say about what happened next. >> when i was getting up to the car, when i saw him, i could smell the brakes. i saw his brake lights coming on. my next video was okay, get upside, use my p...

News. >> reporter: federal investigators are headed to the scene and we just learned toyota says that now 2,000 -- 2004 to 2009 priuses will be recalled to prevent future pedal entrapment. what happened in this case, the driver of this 2008 prius fought it for something -- like 35 miles along a winding stretch of interstate 8 before he finally stopped with the help of the california highway patrol. at one point james sipes says his prius reached 94 miles an hour and sipes says it happened just two weeks after he took that car to a toyota dealer with a recall notice in hand. he says heave turne...

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