SAN DIEGO -- 10News has learned that electronics -- not the gas pedal, brakes or floor mats -- are the focus of a planned local class action lawsuit against Toyota. Those filing the planned lawsuit believe that there is a defect in the electronic system that connects the throttle and the gas pedal.

Margie Skube of Rancho Bernardo is one of dozens of local drivers that may be joining the class action lawsuit to be filed by the Turley Law Firm.

"The experience I had was really horrifying," Skube said.

Last Monday, as Margie was driving her Lexus SUV in a theater parking lot in Carmel Valley, she suddenly lost control of her vehicle. Skube was halfway into her parking spot when she took her foot off the gas, but her car did not slow down.

"I felt like I was on a carnival ride. I was strapped in, but my car just kept going. There was nothing I could do," Skube said. "The car just bolted forward. My head slammed back."

The SUV crashed into a bush and stopped just feet from the busy Carmel Mountain Road. For Skube, this was the third example of sudden acceleration since May.

Her SUV is not included in the recent recalls. She said the floor mat her Lexus dealer recently installed was nowhere near the pedals and that her gas pedal had not been sticking.

Instead, her story is one of dozens in the county that may be part of a local class action lawsuit that claims a bigger problem: a defect in the electronic system that connects the throttle and the gas pedal.

Skube said, "I just want Toyota and Lexus to know this isn't right, and they are obligated to do something."

In an LA Times probe of 2,000 complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles in the past decade, just 5 percent of people surveyed blamed a sticky gas pedal.

While Toyota has denied such a problem, federal officials have promised an investigation.

For Skube, waiting for the answers is agonizing.

"I'm scared to death it's going to happen again. I used to love taking my car for a drive. Now I feel helpless."

When Skube took her car to the dealer, Lexus Kearny Mesa, they performed a test drive and diagnostic test on the electronics, but she was told there was nothing wrong.

If you would like more information on the class action lawsuit in the works, go to www.turleylawfirm.com