`` I pushed the gas pedal ... and it just stuck there , '' said Jim Sikes . Sikes had to get help from the California Highway Patrol to stop his car . `` Toyota has dispatched a field technical specialist to San Diego to investigate the report and offer assistance , '' the statement said . The CHP officer who stopped him told him that he was going too fast for a traffic light at an intersection in San Francisco.
`` I pushed the gas pedal ... and it just stuck there , '' said Jim Sikes . Sikes had to get help from the California Highway Patrol to stop his car . The CHP officer who stopped him told him that he was going too fast for a traffic light at an intersection in San Francisco.