2002 Honda Accord steering problems

My wife and I each separately encountered issues with steering and brakes possibly not working as intended. First occurred in october I believe, only couple months into the lease. I was almost run off on a highway, as I swerved to get out of the way..I lost control and spun out(did 360) and hit the right shoulder barrier. I didn't think anything of it at the time. Chalked it up to bad luck. Then may of this year, my wife on highway, braked hard to avoid hitting traffic in front of her that had braked hard as well.

A steering stuck incident which could have become a major accident if it had happened on a busy road! While driving normally around 20MPH in a 30 MPH speed zone and trying to turn right, the steering was stuck and could not turn right. After proceeding straight, turned right with a great manual effort in steering by making a very wide right turn at the next signal (almost endangering cars in the other lane waiting at the signal) then moved into a parking lot where I found the steering could be neither turned right…