Federal officials are spending Tuesday night looking over 70,000 documents relating to Toyota's safety problems.
Secretary of Transportation and Peoria native Ray LaHood says Toyota made a "huge mistake" by not disclosing safety problems with gas pedals on a number of models.
Officials say documents obtained from the automaker show Toyota knew of the problem with sticking gas pedals in late September but did not issue a recall until late January. LaHood explains, "they're really documents that show that Toyota knew that...that they had a sticky pedal problem. And under the law they're required to report that to us within five days, and they didn't really report it to us until January. I mean, it's clearly a violation, and it's clearly an indication that they...they have violated the law. And we are absolutely not gonna stand for that kind of behavior for one second."
LaHood says he wouldn't be surprised if new information is uncovered in the documents.
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