Montero Sport Sudden Acceleration Accident

[e_mer8]

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Just sharing...


Extract from MSCP Forum
Posted last Dec 18, 2010, 10:44pm

Last December 16, 2010 I arrived with my wife and daughter from London for our Christmas vacation and we were picked up from the NAIA by my parents and sister. My sister drove our November 2009 Montero (4x2 automatic which just had its 5000 km service from Mitsubishi Balintawak a week ago) to the airport while my dad drove the Montero form the airport to our house in Quezon City. After lunch, I drove the Montero with my wife to the National Kidney Institute to visit my wife’s mother. After visiting my mother-in-law in the hospital, I then drove the Montero back to our house. My sister, father, and I did not find anything unusual with the Montero. In fact we love our Montero. I even recommended the Montero to my dad when he was deciding on what SUV to buy a year ago.

Then at about 6pm that same day my mother asked my dad to remove the Montero from our driveway and park it outside our house because orphans will be visiting our house to sing Christmas carols. As my dad was parallel parking along the road outside our gate, the Montero suddenly accelerated forward with very high engine revolution and collided with a Mercedes Benz E230 parked just 6 meters away on the side of the road! The engine revolution was so loud that I, my family, and our neighbors went outside to see what happened! This happened even when my dad was stepping hard on the brakes! My dad is a very safe driver with over 50 years of driving experience and mostly with cars with automatic transmission. After colliding with the Mercedes, the Montero did not stop but continued forward at high speed (still my father was stepping hard on the brakes!). My father saw a passing Toyota Revo infront of him and a tricycle infront of the Revo. So he decided to hit a Meralco post (68 meters away from our house) to stop the Montero! Fortunately, he missed the Meralco post by half a meter and instead side swiped our neighbors wall and then collided with a palm tree. After hitting the tree, my father said that the Montero still jerked forward a couple of times before stopping. You can see the pictures at Mitsubishi Montero Sudden Acceleration Accident

After colliding with the Mercedes Benz, side swiping a wall, and hitting a tree, the airbags did not deploy! It was only very fortunate that my father shifted his body to the front passenger side so he his head did not hit the windshield. My sister and I with a lot of our neighbors rushed to the rescue of my father. And fortunately one of our neighbors that rushed to the aid of my father was a trauma nurse from Stanford in the US. He checked the condition of my dad while I quickly went home to get our Ford Everest to drive my dad to the hospital. In the hospital, my dad was examined by the emergency room doctor and had a full body x-ray. Very fortunately, no fractures were found. We then went to the police station to get a police report.

The next day we went to the office of our insurance company and Mitsubishi Balintawak. As usual they told us that they will conduct an investigation starting Monday.

I know you all love your Monteros. We do too, but only up to 6pm of December 16, 2010. My father, because of the trauma he experienced, will never want to take a ride on a Mitsubishi Montero again.

Has anyone of you heard or experienced sudden acceleration with a Mitsubishi Montero similar to the incidents that Toyota vehicles suffered? Or do you know an organization in Metro Manila (maybe the Philippine Motor Association) that can conduct a parallel independent investigation on this incident, I beg you to please email me at *****_****@gmail.com

Please always drive carefully and be always reminded that this can happen to another Mitsubishi Montero. We are all very thankful that no one was seriously hurt in this accident but imagine if this happened on EDSA during our trip from the airport with my whole family on board our Montero

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[Milkyner]

wow, what can i say?

[ShinToy117]

basin dili ni problem lang sa mitsu montero.. basin sa mga tanan automatic posible jd mg sudden acceleration.

[e_mer8]

basin dili ni problem lang sa mitsu montero.. basin sa mga tanan automatic posible jd mg sudden acceleration.

More info....

Sudden Acceleration Information Group

[BIGDANE]

naa sad to diri sa cebu sa reclamation nabangga siya tungod ana...daghan kaayo nuon ang nadamay ato.

[joop]

wake up call ni siya,...
what if kita mahitaboan? saon nalang !

[korg17]

interesting. lets see what mitsubishi has to say.

[kenny_tiu7]

they are still investigating this issue sa manila if unsa jud ang culprit. kay naglibog ang uban kay some say is bisan brake mu dagan ghapon, which is somewhat impossible since dili ECU controlled ang brakes, some say pod nga naa sa neutral mu sudden jerk gamay pero very controllable ra sa brake. whichever/whatever is true or the cause kailnangan ni e check and investigate.


@big dane- naa nahitabo ani sa cebu na monty? when nahitabo? imung kaila? naa unta ko e ask niya kay im doing investigation myself pod. hehe

[jpcrown]

Black propaganda. kabaw ko sa pikas brand daghan Reklamo kulang nlng ipa Recall.

[jpcrown]

human error na. iyang Dad 50years of driving experience. Therefore, iyang dad ni drive sa montero at the age of 50+18= 68. So, at the age of 68 you cant always get to discount that our brains begin to deteriorate. prone na sa mistakes.. not the car i guess kay cila ray nireklamo. Monteros are selling like hotcakes this time less ang reklamo.