NU Online News Service, April 4, 2:56 p.m. EDT

A jury in New York found that Toyota is not responsible for a 2005 crash in the first trial related to the car manufacturer’s recall of eight million vehicles due to unintended acceleration.

Toyota attorneys told jurors the October 2005 accident involving a Scion TC made the same year was due to an error by the driver, Amir Sitafalwalla of Long Island, N.Y.

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