That report says an initial investigation by the U.S. Transportation Department found essentially the same thing that investigators uncovered when they looked into sudden-acceleration complaints about Audis in the 1980s: drivererror.
Toyota says its own downloads of data recorders have found evidence of sticky pedals and pedal entrapment as well as drivererror, which is characterized by no evidence of the brakes being depressed during impact.
The sacked driver Eammon Lynch had admitted he had made a safety error and has been re-instated in a different role and LU says it reacted to the findings of his tribunal NOT the threat of strike action.