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For 30 minutes, Ubelstad dodged in and out of traffic at high speed, at times veering off the road to avoid crashing.She traveled almost 60 miles from Missouri into Iowa with one patrol car in front of her and another behind.Ubelstad yelled at other drivers and begged for help, trying everything the 911 dispatcher could offer, but she still couldn't stop her SUV."I knew I was going to die. I didn't have any doubt about. I really thought I was going to die ... and no matter what I did, I couldn't slow it down," she said.Ubelstad was headed back home after a weekend in Kansas City, but shortly after stopping for gas in northern Missouri, her nightmare began."It was accelerating faster and faster. And I was looking at my GPS, and the number was going up and up and up," she said. "My foot isn't even on the accelerator. The emergency brake is on, all the way, I'm trying to move the brake, but it's not working."When sheriff's deputies were trying to catch up, their in-car camera recorded the terrifying trip.Ubelstad barreled through the median, blasted though construction zones and still couldn't shut the vehicle off or shift out of drive."When I passed Osceola, dispatchers said to try to lift up the accelerator and push on the brake. And so, I did that, and it slammed me from 119-mph to like nothing."In the end, a trooper was able to climb into the vehicle and put it in park.It's still unclear how the accelerator got stuck.
... The SUV eventually slowed down, apparently of its own volition, and was brought to a stop. The dashcam footage shows the woman being helped out of the vehicle, still holding her phone to her ear.... And everyone seemed to accept that the natural and logical response to one's car speeding out of control was to dial 9-1-1
"When I passed Osceola, dispatchers said to try to lift up the accelerator and push on the brake. And so, I did that, and it slammed me from 119-mph to like nothing."
A trooper climbed into her window at 110 MPH? Looking at the GPS and not the speedometer? Quote"When I passed Osceola, dispatchers said to try to lift up the accelerator and push on the brake. And so, I did that, and it slammed me from 119-mph to like nothing." Now, let's play a game of Obama voter or Romney voter with this dingbat...
That she lifted up from the accelerator and pressed down on the brake to finally stop?I think that's the only statement that was true.
Brake and parking (once referred to as emergency) brake applied?Transmission in neutral?Placing the shift lever in "R" will surely cause radical deceleration.Placing the shift lever in "P" will cause extreme deceleration.Ignition switch off?
