Electric car ‘kidnaps’ owner in terrifying ordeal: ‘It won’t stop’

A driver who was “kidnapped” by his personal electrical automotive needed to dodge roundabouts and run purple lights after his car turned caught at a set pace of just about 50km/h.

Brian Morrison, 53, was driving residence from work in his new MG ZS electrical car when it suffered a “catastrophic malfunction” which brought about it to get caught on the pace and cease the brakes from working.

“I realised one thing was unsuitable once I was coming as much as a roundabout, and went to decelerate, but it surely didn’t do it,” the person from Glasgow, Scotland advised native media. “Then I heard a loud grinding noise that appeared like brake pads.”

“I rapidly rang my companion and I stated, ‘I do not know what to do. I am sitting right here and it is driving by itself, but it surely will not cease’… I’ve mobility points, so I couldn’t even leap out – I used to be utterly trapped contained in the automotive.”

Police intervene to forestall a serious accident

After calling police for pressing help, the driving force noticed the “blue lights” of police automobiles round him inside minutes and the highway forward of him was cleared.

Police reportedly requested Mr Morrison to throw his electrical automotive key by their van window earlier than driving off within the hope to disengage the engine, nonetheless it didn’t have the specified impact. He was then instructed to carry down the automotive’s energy button however this additionally didn’t cease the car.

“The very last thing to do was an emergency cease by truly the police asking me to crash into the again of their van,” Mr Morrison stated, explaining the coordinated collision was the ultimate suggestion as he approached a extra built-up space. It proved profitable.

‘By no means seen something prefer it’

The motive force stated regardless of the intense measures to power the automotive to cease, the car tried to maintain shifting — with a roadside restore mechanic later saying he had by no means seen something prefer it.

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The ordeal has left Mr Morrison questioning whether or not he’ll drive in an electrical automotive once more.

“I would like a automotive to get round but it surely positively will not be this automotive,” he stated.

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