Hi all - looking for some help/guidance. A member of my family has a Disco 5 which is nearly 2 yrs old. Last year they were driving down the motorway when the vehicle suddenly accelerated rapidly (no adaptive cruise control enabled) and the driver managed to brake in time but on taking foot off the brake, the vehicle accelerated rapidly again and crashed into another vehicle with only minor injuries. Subsequent investigations by JLR (checking the black box logs etc) found nothing to confirm that the vehicle accelerated on it's own and so vehicle repaired (after many months) and returned to owner.

Fast forward a year to yesterday and the same thing happened, this time relative low speeds on an A-road and this time driver unable to brake in time causing collision with another car and injuries (minor) with Police involved. Police notified this is the 2nd time vehicle has done this and so they are performing their own investigations.

The questions I want to put out there is anyone aware of this happening with other "modern" Land rovers and also if this time around with the Police or JLR still find nothing to explain this is there any sort of independent investigation specialist that we could go to in order to try to prove that there is a vehicle fault and obviously that the driver is not to blame?

Thanks in advance :-)

 

Sorry to hear this and glad no major injuries. Safe to assume they eliminated any possibility of anything down there interfering with the gas pedal, like a misplaced floor mat, etc.?

 

A number of stories of this sort of behaviors on many cars over the years. Unfortunately it's either a loose floor mat / something on the floor that caught the accelerator peddle (that was the Toyota story I think. Not been an issue on LR unless they have some aftermarket mats?). Otherwise it's driver error. Typically stamping on the brake but catching the edge of the accelerator pedal (or just the wrong pedal when urgently trying to brake)

The brake is much more powerful than the accelerator so even if a car were to accelerate the driver should still be able to stop it

LR can pull off the computer exactly what was happening with driver inputs in the run up to the collision so they should know which pedal were being pushed etc

What sort of shoes do they drive in? I had this at a stop light once in an older car. Pressing the brake hard as the car was reviving and trying to accelerate by itself. Turned out the dress shoes I was wearing had a lip around the edge that caught the brake pedal. Entirely my error...

Hope they resolve it soon. Sounds scary for them.

 

2014 Land Rover.i had to get rid of this car immediately.
The first incident, I took my foot off gas, about to break, the car sped up, bucked out of control.
It wouldnt stop. I hit the car in front of me
Moderate Damage but could've been bad.

The next incident. I'm sitting at a stop sign. N this thing was revving up on its own
I knew it was about to speed up again.
I had to turn car completely off.
This type of situation could have ended bad each time. Potentially fatal .
I Had it salvaged.

 

D5 was sold starting 2017?