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Toyota Complaints Keep Rising and So Does the Injury List, Death Count and Lawsuits

A recent report on CNN indicated that the number of vehicles Toyota is experiencing complaints about has risen by 9 complaints since the recall for the accelerator issue was announced January 27, 2010.  The 9 complaints that were filed with the NHTSA included 13 fatalities and 10 injuries and the accidents occurred between 2005 and 2010.  This brings the total number of complaints made against the defective Toyota cars up to 34 incidents over the past 10 years.  This number includes 21 deaths according to the NHTSA.

The NHTSA is also reporting that they have seen a large increase in consumers complaining about the Toyota Prius in the past couple of weeks since the recall for the Prius was originally announced on February 3, 2010.  Up until February 3 the NHTSA had received 124 complaints but since then they have received an additional 996 complaints about the Prius which brings the total number of complaints to 1,120.