UPDATE: Toyota Loses Its First Sudden Acceleration Lawsuit

An Oklahoma jury has concluded that Toyota Motor Corp. must pay $3 million in a lawsuit that claimed an electronic flaw caused one of its 2005 Camry sedans to spontaneously accelerate, killing one occupant and injuring another.

Toyota says it reached an undisclosed agreement with the plaintiffs to settle the lawsuit before the jury was scheduled to decide separately on punitive damages on Friday. The company adds that it "strongly disagrees" with the verdict and insists there was no flaw in the vehicle.

The lawsuit involved a 76-year-old driver was unable to slow her car after exiting a highway, eventually crashing into a tree. The impact injured the driver and killed a 70-year old occupant. The plaintiff claims that unspecified external electrical signals may have interfered with the car's electronic throttle control.

Toyota argued there were no defects in the car and suggested instead that the driver pressed the accelerator instead of the brake.

Toyota has won three recent lawsuits that made similar claims about unintended acceleration. The company faces a fifth such trial in California next November and a sixth in Michigan in February. Hundreds of additional cases are pending.