people. yes. do you think it was on purpose or did it look like it was on purpose? i think it was on purpose, because if the car didn t work, he should have hit the car or something so he could stop, but he just goes through the sidewalk. reporter: so the car started hitting here or was it up there? where did he start hitting? i saw i was in the starbucks, so i think it was starting here, so i didn t go over here. this is park home avenue? is that what it s called here? yes. so you saw him start hitting people here and continue to go down on the sidewalk. was he driving on the road? on the sidewalk. he was driving on the sidewalk. thank you. i didn t get your name. emma. a friend told me he started hit people on fitch and someone heard a gunshot. a gunshot. gunshot to the head. and then drove from there and just kept hearing. that s my friend called and tell me. reporter: okay. thank you, guys. here s what i can say about those two witnesses that wer
this officer was in a new police vehicle that was added to the fleet two days before the incident. we re told because a temperature change, a temperature change, the glue that was supposed to have fixed that camera to the front of the car didn t work. it didn t set. so the camera fell off a day before the incident. as you can imagine, people at the university, students, we hear, are upset about this story. they say that there are plenty of holes in it. obviously, people are taking this in, but this is new information we re getting. what about this officer and also this young man s family? what have they said, if anything, thus far? well, as far as the family, we know that they have asked for prayers. we know they were also at that vigil that happened just a few days ago there at the university. obviously, a very difficult time for that family. and what we re hearing from the university, they re defending their officer. we did reach out to corporal carter. he did not return our call
but if someone was injured, you or somebody you injured because the car didn t work as you expected it to, that person would have a cause of action against toyota. jane: the nhtsa got 2600 complaints about unintended acceleration in the last ten years. nobody can be held responsible? correct. the remedy under the law i happen to think there should be personal liability when people in the government don t do their job, but they don t have that liability. the public policy is make them free from liability, and they ll be free to make their choices as government officials. but they didn t act on those 2600 until the rash of toyota-discovered events in the past two months. jane: talk to me about what we re going to see in front of congress. as i said, first of a bunch of hearings. as somebody called it today, this is really a scolding session. that s exactly what it is. i happen to be a personal admirer of congressman stupak, but he is just a democrat