James Sikes – Has everyone forgotten car basics?
If the gas pedal gets stuck, forget breaking and all. Simply put the car in Neutral … you know P R N D 2 1 … the N stands for Neutral which will disengage the transmission thus stopping the engine from applying power to the wheels. Putting the car in neutral while the pedal is stuck will cause the engine to rev up like crazy but you will be able to simply pull over and once the car comes to a stop, shut the engine off.
Why the CHP had this guy breaking and all that is beyond me.
This incident has all the ingredients of it being a hoax. In America, people are willing to do crazy things just to get what they want. Remember the “Balloon Boy” incident that turned out to be a big hoax? This one has all the signs and symptoms of “Hoaxology 101″, if you just think…
The driver – James Sikes and his wife Patty filed for bankruptcy in 2008 with a combined debt estimated at $700,000 (almost 3 quarters of a million dollars).
It took James Sikes approx 30 miles without doing anything aside from stepping on the brakes. Logically, any person would try anything to stop the car, but his behaviour was doubtful. I happen to own a Prius and it is much simpler than P R N D 2 1… because it is not like that in a Prius it only has R N D P (see picture below) so I know how easy it is to put the car to Neutral. The motion to put the car to Neutral is one stroke left, that’s it… but James Sikes never tried it. Hmmmmm… questionable. There’s a tape of the 911 call and he totally ignored the instructions to put the car to neutral.
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