I was involved in an auto accident. the front driver side quarter panel was hit. no airbags deployed in either car. immediately upon the collision, i tried to stop the car, but it accelerated on it's own. the car would not stop. i made a split decision to pull into a parking lot and then contemplated driving the car into a tree to stop it. i then decided to drive over a curbed divider that had a 3 foot hedge. i got the car to stop 8 feet after running over the hedge. i have no idea what happened, but did have a clear thought process to get the car to stop. i opted to run over a 3 foot box hedge instead of into a tree. i have no clue why the car accelerated the way it did. the car is now considered a "total loss".