I never get why the dispatchers, police and reporters refuse to ask the simple questions — like, have you turned off the ignition or how about shifting into neutral?
The dispatcher did tell him to put the car in Neutral, but he refused.
The police and dispatchers begged him for 20 minutes to do both of those things, but the guy refused again and again and again, saying he was too scared and needed both hands on the wheel. (Of course, he wasn't too scared to use his cell phone, or to reach down to try to pull the accelerator pedal up.)
The reporters, on the other hand, are ignorant, gullible, anti-corporate, pro-government, pro-trial-lawyer morons who will mostly be starving to death soon unless they have other marketable skills.
The radio traffic is online. The CHP dispatcher repeatedly advised him to put the car in neutral, and to shut it off.
http://10newsblogs.com/audio/prius-911call.mp3
They repeatedly instructed Sikes to shift into neutral and to turn off the vehicle and also to use the brakes. He said he was afraid to do each of these. (Sounds like the problem resides between the guy’s legs to me.)
But he claims he reached down and pulled up the accelerator while doing 90 miles an hour and talking on his cellphone.