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Originally Posted by oldE View Post
A few times I have read or heard accounts of a driver losing control and braking as hard as they could then "we hit the grass (or ice, or any other low co-efficient of friction surface) and it sped up"

I'm sorry. This is physically impossible. The rate of deceleration may have approached zero, but there was no force applied to the vehicle to accelerate it.

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Hitting the accelerator in error rather than the brake is probably more common than people realise. We know it happens in low speed incidents (Youtube is full of examples), why wouldn't it happen in high speed incidents? (Just more likely to go unrecognised)
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