A mum-of-four who ploughed her Toyota 4×4 into oncoming traffic has said the double smash was not her fault because the car’s computer system ‘took over’.
Diane Bryan, 58, from Barnsley in South Yorkshire, got the brand new Toyota RAV4 Excel just six months before she was involved in the December 2022 crash.
The motability vehicle scheme allows people who receive mobility personal independence payments (PIP) to trade their payments in for an adapted vehicle.
She insisted that when she tried to turn left round a bend the wheel of the £41,000 vehicle refused to budge – and that the ‘white line’ technology didn’t kick in to pull her back when she crossed the central point.
Dashcam footage from the journey from Southampton to Glastonbury shows the car veering over to the other side of the road before colliding with two oncoming vehicles – the drivers of which walked away from the scene uninjured.