'Where my mind went was that I was going to die, but I didn't want to take anybody else with me.'
“My accelerator is stuck down! I am on Farmer! I need help!” James Bennefield is heard on the 911 call saying.
He responds to 911 calls as an emergency medical technician, but off-duty on Christmas Eve, he called in crisis.The call cuts off, but witnesses describe the aftermath: “It looks like it exploded.”Surprisingly, incredibly, he survived. His most serious injury was a dislocated thumb.He said the accelerator got stuck all the way down, open throttle.He clocked the speedometer at 110 mph when he realized he would have to crash.
“Where my mind went was that I was going to die, but I didn’t want to take anybody else with me,” he said. He aimed the car for a large, empty parking lot in Newnan, where it flipped five times, and an extraction tool had to pull him out.After surviving the crash, he struggled to wrap his mind around what happened. Most people he talked to had never heard of the accelerator getting stuck down.“Yes, it’s actually happened to me,” car service manager Cari Sutton said.“I still panicked, and it’s a very human thing to do,” Sutton said.“Take both feet and press them down on the brake pedal hard.
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