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Actually, while brake failure is an interesting possibility, it doesn't explain continued acceleration or inability of clutch to neutralize. It seems to me by now I should accept that somehow I screwed up and move on. Thank you all for your input.

Good advice. Thanks.

No. I remember making sure I was on the brake. I just can't be sure that I hadn't secondary engagement with accelerator.

No,definitely the primary pressure was on the brake.

I can assure you if the floor was weak, the brake pedal would have gone through. It was a freaky experience causing me to put extreme pressure on brakes. In hindsight, I might have been better off applying handbrake and shutting off ignition but I didn't think fast enough.

Yes.

Standard meaning stick shift. Diesel, of course, the fuel.

Right! The rental was a petrol.

Thanks for that though I would rather have heard something else.

It was a standard, and that's all I drive and though I have no photographic recollection of the clutch, it would be incomprehensible to think I did not have it depressed.

That's a possibility I'm afraid.

Only 17,000 km. Rental co. Wrote it down to driver error. Haven't talked to insurer yet.

Hi Adam. No, I don't believe so. Thanks.

I was driving a Skoda Fabia rental the other day...I really don't know what "mk" it was and was braking at the end of the first stage of a three point turn in a narrow street. The engine kept revving with full pressure on brake and car gently bumped into pillar. Thankfully I was going very slow. I can't for the life of me figure it out. Did my foot somehow engage that pedal while braking or could it be mechanical? I tried to reenact the event (without the post) but could not. Any suggestions or ideas?