A lawsuit filed by an Upland family, who claims that the sudden acceleration of a Toyota killed a family member, goes to trial today. It's the fist and considered a "test" case.
A lawsuit filed by an Upland family who claims a 2006 Toyota Camry unexpectedly accelerated to speeds up to 100 m.p.h. killing a family member is being called a test lawsuit and goes to court as of today, according to several reports.
Noriko Uno, a 66-year-old bookkeeper, was killed Aug. 28, 2009, on Euclid Avenue. According to an article by the Associated Press, her car went onto a median and struck a telephone pole and a tree.
The Uno case is the first of the Toyota “sudden acceleration” cases to go to trial. It could determine if Toyota Motor Corp. should be held liable for sudden unintended acceleration in its vehicles “a claim made by motorists that plagued the Japanese automaker and led to lawsuits, settlements and recalls of millions of its cars and SUVs,” the Associated Press’s Greg Risling wrote
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