Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with longer reaction times. Elderly drivers have longer reaction times.
Young drivers kill and injure far more people than elderly drivers.
Very few people, regardless of how long they've been driving, ever get experience with uncontrolled sudden acceleration.
I also ended up in situations where my instinct or experience told me to accelerate instead of pushing the breaks. This happens often.
Got plenty of experience driving on glazed frost. I even crashed once because of the car skidding ... went off-road, with the car rolling over a couple of times, and me and the other passenger survived with minor injuries.
From that experience I learned that whatever you do (besides wearing a seat-belt) you have to avoid trees.
IMHO, more experienced drivers are better, and I've seen some pretty good instincts coming from 40-50 year-old or so acquaintances.
I really don't know what I would do with a sudden acceleration problem. I would probably try to remain calm and wait for it to recover (pushing the acceleration / brake to trigger events, try to stop the engine), and try not crashing.
On a side note ... that's why I don't like cars with automatic transmissions. If my current car experienced a sudden acceleration problem, I could just take it out of gear or do an old-fashioned motor-brake.
It seems like you're correcting me, but how is your point anything but tangential? If you're wondering why inexperienced drivers aren't also over-represented, it's probably because not many 16-21 year olds drive priuses.