This is about a leased 2006 bmw x5. i was parking the car, & had applied the footbrake when the car began to accelerate. i floored the brake pedal again, but the car did not stop, so i applied the handbrake & still it did not stop. it crashed through some bushes, over a concrete sidewalk & into the street which luckily had no traffic. i was able to slam the gearshift into reverse & turned off the ignition to stop the car while at a right angle to the lane markers in the road. very lucky that there was no oncoming traffic at that hour. i restarted the car, put it into reverse gear & backed over the same path & into the parking lot & pulled the handbrake & turned off the ignition. i called braman bmw of w. palm beach to tow the car away since i was unwilling to drive it anymore. their head mechanic,prior to inspecting the car, during a 3-way phone call with me & joe of braman bmw in w. palm beach, stated that he concluded (before he ever looked at the car) that i was at fault & that i must have mistakenly pushed the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal. they called me on monday, december 29, said they test drove it & found nothing wrong. they said they would call bmw's national office & get back to me. so far i have had no call back. *tr