California Prius Driver A Fake?

A lot of people have questioned the driver of a Toyota Prius who supposedly had an accelerator stick and was basically out of control i=on a highway near San Diego.
Well, it seems, the driver may have made things up: "A federal safety investigation of the Toyota Prius that was involved in a dramatic incident on a California highway last week found a particular pattern of wear on the car's brakes that raises questions about the driver's version of the event, three people familiar with the investigation told the Wall Street Journal.
On Monday James Sikes, 61 years old, called 911 and told the operator his blue 2008 Toyota Prius had sped up to more than 90 miles per hour on its own on Interstate 8 near San Diego. He eventually brought the vehicle to a stop after a California Highway patrolman pulled alongside Sikes and offered help.
During and after the incident, Sikes said he was using heavy pressure on his brake pedal at high speeds.
But the investigation of the vehicle, carried out jointly by safety officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Toyota engineers, didn't find signs the brakes had been applied at full force at high speeds over a sustained period of time, the three people familiar with the investigation said." http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/03/13/pattern-wear-runaway-prius-brakes-raises-questions/
Further, Mark Levin asks a very good question: Why would the driver reach down and try and adjust the accelerator as opposed to reach over a couple of inches and put the car in neutral? Unless, he was going down a mountain road, this should have slowed down the car.
The driver says he won't file lawsuit because of what happened and now I can see why.