Cop Orders Teenage Honda Pilot Driver To Crash Into Him
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Thanks to the quick thinking of a Minnesota trooper, a teenage driver behind the wheel of an out-of-control Honda Pilot is not only alive but unharmed. Something went wrong with the vehicle and the teen’s mom called police for help, with the trooper in the area thankfully coming up with a solution to the unusual problem.
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According to the mother, there was already a problem with the Honda’s throttle sticking open so it was taken to the shop to be fixed. Whatever was done to the crossover didn’t completely eliminate the problem, something her 18-year-old son found out the hard way one night.
He panicked as the Honda accelerated to 113 mph. While that was surely a scary experience, we can’t help but laugh that in a flat-out run that’s all a Pilot can manage. But in all seriousness, it’s a good thing the kid was behind the wheel of a gutless Honda and not a real car in this situation.
Still, the problem was, as the trooper correctly ascertained, the kid was running out of road. He wouldn’t be able to navigate an upcoming intersection at the speeds he was going, so the trooper came up with the idea of having the teenager run into his cruiser.
First, he speed up in front of the Honda, then slowed down and tripped the crash mitigation system so the Pilot slowed to about 50 mph. Still, that’s a pretty good clip and it wouldn’t come to a stop. So the trooper told the teen driver to intentionally crash into the back of his cruiser when he stopped.
Talk about taking one for the team! The risky maneuver worked and the trooper and teenager both walked away from the collision. Now the mystery remains about why the vehicle accelerated out of control in the first place.
Honda issued a statement to Fox 9 about the incident, saying it couldn’t “speculate” what might have caused the out-of-control acceleration. Hopefully it’s an isolated incident.
Image via Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul/YouTube
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