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    South Korea officials investigating sudden car acceleration claim

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A horrific video now out of Korea involving one elderly couple and what they say was a terrifying ordeal.

After their car suddenly accelerated out of control here you can see the car before it speeds up just seconds before reportedly accelerating to eighty miles an hour.

Trace Gallagher has more embraced it many.

Are just like airplanes maybe we should not have these black boxes right just like airplanes they control and they record the system -- in the controls and how they're working.

But we -- the Hyundai and they say they do not put video cameras in their cars which is not to say.

There's not video -- it's not legit because you can buy these black box video cameras anywhere you can download -- -- -- ball -- like a lot.

Video of the Korean couple in their sixties driving a Hyundai Sonata.

It begins -- -- with a casual conversation right and followed by thirteen seconds of sheer horror.

Play the thirteen seconds now watch this.

Eighty miles per hour they hit the back of that -- -- the chain reaction crash several vehicles involved seventeen people were injured -- luckily none of them were -- The couple's son actually posted this video on the Internet because he didn't -- Hyundai or the police were gonna pursue this as a case of sudden acceleration.

-- guys that's very skeptical of this video but they released a statement saying I'm quoting here.

The vehicle is being inspected by the Korean national forensic service there is no time estimate for the conclusion.

Of the investigation Hyundai motor will provide updates as they are available the Korean government by the way is also investigating four other cases of sudden.

Acceleration remember those black boxes kind of exonerated Toyota three years ago when they had all those cases of sudden acceleration that they had ever call.

A bunch of those cars so the black boxes are effective about saying the -- -- We're saying that Hyundai says they didn't have a camera.

In the car but they're widely available while that is scary tape now Trace thank you yeah.