Japan/United States: Toyota cars' unintended acceleration may have killed 89: regulator.

Section: General News - There may have been 89 fatalities in accidents stemming from the unintended acceleration of Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles since 2000, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday.

By mid-May, the U.S. government's safety regulator received a total of 6,200 reports alleging that drivers of Toyota vehicles had accidents as a result of unintended acceleration as well as complaints that their vehicles sped up unintentionally.

Of these reports, the NHTSA has simply added up the number of fatalities which claimants alleged have resulted from unintended …