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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Singapore Asia Pacific World Toyota 10-million-dollar crash deal revealed AFP - Friday, December 24 Send IM Story Print LOS ANGELES (AFP) - – Toyota voiced dismay Thursday as a judge lifted a ban on disclosing that the Japanese carmaker paid 10 million dollars to settle a lawsuit over a fatal crash due to a stuck accelerator pedal. The automaker reached an out-of-court deal in September with the families of California highway patrol officer Mark Saylor and three family members who died in an August 2009 crash in San Diego. Details of the deal were kept secret, but on Monday a judge allowed the amount to be disclosed following a request by a local Lexus dealer from whom the car came and a number of media outlets. "Toyota and the... families reached a private, amicable settlement through mutual respect and cooperation without the involvement of the courts," said Toyota, facing a mammoth federal lawsuit over defects in its automobiles. "So we are disappointed that the amount of this settlement has now been made public against the express wishes of these families and Toyota," it added. The families of Saylor and his wife Cleofe Lastrella had claimed that defects in the 2009 Lexus ES car caused it to accelerate out of control, killing the couple, their daughter Mahala, 13, and his brother-in-law Chris Lastrella, 38. They agreed to drop the legal action in exchange for the out-of-court settlement. Saylor family lawyer John Gomez said the settlement only resolved part of the case, adding that legal action was continuing against the Lexus dealer, Bob Baker, whom relatives blame more for the accident. "They were never in this for the money," Gomez added. The moments leading up to the crash were caught in a chilling 911 call in which one of those in the doomed vehicle tells an emergency services operator that they couldn't slow down. "Our accelerator is stuck," said the man, adding that they were doing 120 miles (193 kilometers) per hour on the 125 freeway in southern California. "We're in trouble. There's no brakes," he added. "End freeway in half a mile.... We're approaching the intersection, we're approaching the intersection," he added, before cries of "Pray" and "Oh shoot" are heard followed by screams and the line cutting off. Toyota, which did not admit responsibility in the September deal, insists the accelerator pedal became stuck due to an ill-fitting floor mat, taken from a larger SUV model and installed in the sedan. It cited a December 2009 sheriff's report saying that "the accelerator pedal became trapped either in the grooves of the all-weather floor mat or underneath it, not allowing the accelerator pedal to return to idle when released." "The size of the mat with relation to the size of the floor board did not allow room for easy manipulation to clear the pedal (the SUV mat is much larger and thicker than the sedan mat)," it added, citing the sheriff's report. After the San Diego crash Toyota issued a safety warning in September 2009 on a potential problem with floor mats entrapping the gas pedal affecting some 3.8 million vehicles in the United States, and recalled 55,000 units of two models. Toyota has recalled around 10 million vehicles worldwide since late last year for safety issues and has paid a record 16.4-million-dollar fine to settle claims it hid gas pedal defects blamed for dozens of deaths. The carmaker's top executives have repeatedly denied that the sudden, deadly surges in speed stemmed from flaws in the electronic systems that govern acceleration and braking in modern vehicles. 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