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Stuck pedal sends woman’s car out of control

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Some amazing images coming out of northern Missouri show a high-speed chase involving an Iowa woman who says her car's gas pedal got stuck, causing her to speed out of control.

The driver says she's lucky to be alive and thankful for a very helpful 9-1-1 operator.

"They said try to lift up the accelerator and push on the brake, and so I did that, and it slammed me from 119 mph to like nothing," says Lauri Ulvestad. "It slowed down enough that I jumped out and it kept going and then the officers went and tracked it down and unhooked the battery. I went and hugged, I don't know what officer it was, but I went and hugged him and said I'm safe."

Amazingly, no one was hurt.

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