2011 Hyundai Santa Fe: sudden unintended acceleration

Filed Sep 25, 2020 · Body · 143,000 miles · DE · crash · 1 injury

On june 14,2020, I backed out of a parking spot in a lot outside a grocery store and my hyundai santa fe suddenly accelerated back hitting a barrier pole. When I put it in drive, it leapt forward and sped between a poke and a parked car, raced down a ten-foot embankment and crashed into the corner of a brick building. I later learned that this was called sudden unintended acceleration and that the brakes do not work when sua happens. It was all over within seconds and I had no time to act. My car was completely totaled and I suffered rib cage and sternum contusions from the seat belt. The air bag did not deploy. My car scraped the parked car and my insurance company paid for that damage.

Filed Oct 9, 2015 · Acceleration, Airbags · 40,000 miles · IL · crash · 1 injury

Tl* the contact owns a 2011 hyundai santa fe. The contact stated that after depressing the brake pedal, the vehicle experienced a period of unintended acceleration. As a result, the contact crashed into a brick wall. Prior to the failure, the vehicle was repaired under the federal safety agency campaign number: 13v113000 (exterior lighting, service brakes, hydraulic). The vehicle was destroyed. A police report was filed. The contact sustained burns from the air bag and a neck injury which required medical attention. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 40,000. The VIN was not available. Updated 01/12/16*lj updated 4/18/18*jb

Filed Dec 6, 2014 · Brakes, Engine · 56,128 miles · TX

We own a 2011 hynudai santa fe and had an incident last night pulling into a parking spot, which appears to be something others have experienced: sua sudden unintended acceleration. I was pulling into the parking space with my foot on the brake and the motor just started racing full throttle for no apparent reason. I mashed on the brake and felt it fade out under the force of the increased motor RPM. I quickly shifted into neutral and the engine continued to race but I had my foot completely removed from the brake or accelerator pedals. I then shut the engine off. My wife and I were shaken but uninjured. After completing our reason for the stop, the vehicle started normally and we returned home with no further incident. But our confidence in the vehicle has gone to zero. This was the first and only time this has occurred so far on this vehicle.

Filed Jun 24, 2013 · Acceleration, Body · MD · crash · 1 injury

On june 11, 2013 I was driving my 2011 hyundai santa fe. I was in a parking lot and had pulled into a parking place. I was stopped and putting my car into park. As I reach neutral my car accelerated fast...this was more then a lunge forward, it was more like a power surge. My car continued forward at a very fast speed, despite my braking ( there were skid marks) and hit a wall. I ended up with lots of massive bruising and sprained muscles. Plus I was very frightened. There was lots of damage to my car. It was towed to the dealership, where I purchased it. It is sill in their body shop. A few days after the accident I checked the internet to see if anyone else had this problem. There were lots & lots of examples of this, sudden unintended acceleration problem, with the 2011 santa fe. I don't see any responses from hyundai. This problem has to be dealt with.

Filed Mar 4, 2013 · Acceleration, Engine · 24,242 miles · WA · crash · 1 injury

I backed out of a parking spot and made contact with something which I could not see from my rear view or side view mirrors. Later, when the emergency workers were loading me into the ambulance, I would see that the object was a low, cement pole, which protected a fire hydrant directly behind the parking spot I pulled out of. As I put the vehicle in gear (drive) with my foot on the brake, to pull away from whatever I backed in to, the engine revved and the vehicle accelerated on its own. The vehicle lurched forward (the best way to describe it is the way a pinball bounces off of a bumper on a pinball machine) and continued moving forward, even though my foot was still on the brake pedal. The vehicle drove forward into the parking spot I had started from, over a curb at the front of the parking spot, through a patch of low lying plants and over a wall which is approximately four to five feet in height. My vehicle was airborne and came to rest in the lower level parking lot, striking a parked vehicle. It was only then that the vehicle stopped its forward motion. My arms had been locked on the steering wheel, my right foot on the brake pedal. My left leg absorbed the impact of the crash into the lower level parking lot. I was taken away in an ambulance with a broken leg and severely dislocated ankle. The vehicle has been deemed a total loss by my insurance carrier. I was advised that a claims investigator was sent to the insurance-company-authorized collision shop to where my vehicle was towed. Even though the emergency workers advised on the night of the accident that the car was not in a drivable condition, I was advised by my insurance company that the investigator drove the vehicle in the parking lot of the collision shop and he was not able to replicate the unintended acceleration.