[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

[Pantdino]

I think this is pretty generous of the police.

I suspect that in the US they would be asking, "Why was full throttle applied in the first place under such crowded conditions?"

Presumably he was going to try to spin the rear wheels or whatever to show off, but whatever, he had just released the clutch pedal when he found himself being rocketed forward.  So his foot would still be on that pedal. Wouldn't the natural reaction be to undo what you had just done, therefore to depress the pedal again?  I'm not criticizing anyone, just thinking.

For me the ignition key is far too hard to reach to be a reasonable way of shutting off the engine in 1-2 seconds. I do have an anti-theft / ignition cutoff switch on the side of the tunnel by the driver's seat, but I doubt I could have found it without looking by reflex fast enough to prevent this. 

Jim

  
-----Original Message-----
From: MikeLDrew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 12:02 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash


Hi guys,
Good news from a friend in Sweden:

 was there; it is a very sad story.
It was our member XXXXXX XXXXXX.
The pedal hang up at full throttle, he did what 99% will do, step on the 
rake pedal,  but it made very little difference, only locking the front 
heels.
And it ended up in a disaster. Luckily the police today announced that 
hey have found a technical fault and they will drop all charges against hem 
nd it is seen as an accident and not he’s fault.
Also the older man that had the worse injuries is in an stabile condition.
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I don't know what caused the throttle to stick open.   Could be floormats, 
r the kickpanel, or some issue wiith the Weber throttle linkage.   But this 
ust goes to prove the need to evaluate the throttle system for proper 
peration, and highlights the need for separate, independent throttle return 
prings, plural, i.e. not just relying on a single spring....
Mike
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