Hi,
I was very surprised when I read your article.
The same thing may have happened to my wife in July.
We have a 2002 ES300.
She had backed it out of our townhome, and waited while the garage closed.
At that point, she shifted from R to D in order to begin moving forward. As she did this, she indicated that the car 'lurched' forward.
End result was that it zoomed forward before she could fully turn, causing our garage to be damaged (and a busted gas line that caused an evacuation).
Obviously, the insurance company indicated it was our fault 100%. I talked to my wife about it in detail, and she is absolutely adamant that she did not press the gas pedal... she insisted the car lurched forward on its own out of control.
I chalked it up to her forgetting what happened in the heat of the moment.
After reading your post, I am now reconsidering...
