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Nevermind. He had already taken it back and the mechanic said it was okay....maybe he is just blaming his sh!tty driving on this...who knows...anybody that gets in a crash in a toyota has a excuse now....maybe it won;t work, but its worth a shot i guess...

ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- A four car crash on Monday night is being blamed on a faulty gas pedal.

54-year-old Hoai Luong, who was driving a 2007 Toyota Camry, said the gas pedal stuck before the car flipped and wound up on its roof.

"She just said it would not stop. That was it," said witness Paul Jackson.

Luong, of St. Petersburg, was traveling northbound on 34th Street North toward the intersection of Central Avenue at around 8:41 p.m. She told police the gas pedal stuck, causing her to accelerate into the rear of a 1985 Chrysler sedan that was stopped at a red light. The force of the collision sent the 1985 Chrysler into a 2001 Chrysler sedan.

The Camry flipped over, slid across the intersection and into the front of a 2006 Nissan sedan. Several drivers and passengers suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash and were taken to local hospitals.

The family claimed they took the Camry to a dealership just days earlier and it was cleared. Loung's husband Tuan Tran said through an interpreter,

"We wanted to check the car after hearing about the recall. The mechanic checked it with a flashlight and that was it. It was only 30 seconds"

The GM of the dealership could not comment. But, St. Petersburg Police Officer Mike Jockers said the pedals were not to blame. Jockers said the serial numbers don't even match the ones recalled.

The car has been impounded by St. Petersburg police as part of the accident investigation.

Last night's crash comes on the heels of an announcement by Toyota that a fix for potentially sticky gas pedals on millions of cars.

Toyota's fix for the problem that led to the recall of millions of cars has not come soon enough to prevent a consumer backlash in the U.S. and elsewhere that is battering its sales.

One of the automaker's top executives on Tuesday said the damage from the global recall of nearly 4.6 million vehicles may be greater than previous quality problems because of the massive scale.

"This is unprecedented in having caused this huge problem for customers," said Shinichi Sasaki, who oversees quality control at the world's No. 1 automaker.

He said it was too soon to put a number on the ultimate cost of the recall. But Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto analyst at UBS in Tokyo, estimated the recalls are likely to cost about $900 million, and lost sales are already costing Toyota another $155 million a week.

The recall to fix a gas pedal that can stick when depressed covers some 2.3 million vehicles in the United States alone, including some of Toyota's best-selling models, such as the Camry and Corolla. The company has recalled millions more because of floor mats that can catch the gas pedal.