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You will have been reading about the massive vehicle recall Toyota had to carry out in the USA recently following problems with the cars brake and accelerator systems – toyota owners in the UK are now pressing the panic buttons after fatalities in the USA were reported here. Personally I would be getting some life insurance quotes before I got back behind the wheel of my Toyota while this is all going on and the trouble is not showing signs of abating.

The crisis at Toyota deepened yesterday as pressure mounted for it to recall its flagship ‘green’ car, the Prius, over brake problems. Sources said 270,000 of the petrol-electric hybrids worldwide may have to be checked.  Toyota has not confirmed a recall but has admitted the newest Prius models had a software problem affecting the brakes. Official investigations have been ordered in the U.S. and Japan although British ministers have not so far followed suit.

The world’s biggest car firm has already recalled eight million vehicles over fears that two separate faults with accelerator pedals have left them unsafe. That move affects 180,865 cars in Britain, where owners have been warned it could take up to four weeks for them to be notified. Last night it emerged that 270 Toyotas here have been reported as having the potentially lethal fault. Toyota said that it had confirmed 20 cases before announcing the recall, but another 250 were reported in the past week.

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