A new Toyota Tundra pickup struck an oak tree off a rural road in Washington state in 2007, killing the 29-year-old driver, in what in many ways seemed liked a common sort of tragedy.
When the driver's parents and a U.S. senator finally prevailed upon Toyota this April to examine the contents of the truck's crash data recorder, the electronic readings suggested a collision that was far from ordinary.
The data indicated the truck had been going 177 mph when it hit the tree, much faster than the pickup possibly could go, safety experts said. Yet a separate reading from the recorder put the speed at 75 mph before impact.
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