OMG
Driving home from Kilsyth around 10pm when my car malfunctioned leaving me with no brakes, engine off button not working etc ..... car was driving BUT i could not brake or stop car.
Driving through red lights with hazard lights on and trying to make other drivers aware of the issue ....
I rang my partner to come quickly in car and help alert traffic ahead until i could stop the car ... but car would not stop or slow down even driving up hills.
Dialled 999 and within minutes, i seen blue lights coming towards me in every direction.
Police cars were stopping traffic at roundabouts and traffic lights to give me a clear passage until they could decide how to help stop the car.
The decision was made by police after 15 minutes, instructing me to crash into back of one of the police vans driven by the police inspector further up the road at as slow a speed as possible on a 60mph road ... and police van would then brake slowely to force my car to stop.
It was terryfying to be in this situation.
Here is some photos which were taken of me with police patrols all round me and inspector in police van driving by my side trying to calm me down and telling me the plans to help stop the car.
After coming to a stop, the car just started moving on its own again as soon as police van moved forward ..... so police officer jumped into my car and once again we had to force car to hit police van to stop car moving.
It was like the car was driving on its own, and having no control was really stressful.
5 hours later, RAC turned up to rescue me and got home at 5.30am ...
Well, at least i am safe and well .... and have lots to thank these police officers for .... with their calm head in deciding a safe way to bring my car to a stop.
Atleast in a normal car you could turn the engine off or put it in neutral.
Will they let you do it when the cars moving. Never driven an electric car maybe that’s what the police man did.
Looking on the news last night about that bus crash in Venice, i expect some of the death being attributed to the battery going on fire and the fire service not being able to stop it. A scary concept that you can be stuck inside a vehicle post accident and the batteries explode while you are trapped inside.
"The bus company emphasized that the 13-tonne vehicle was electric, discounting earlier reports that it also ran on methane gas. Fire brigade commander Mauro Longo told Il Gazzettino website that the bus's batteries caught fire and made the task of clearing the bus a complex operation.
Witnesses said they could hear people screaming but the flames were too high to intervene."
snipped from the below article
Venice tourist bus plunge leaves 21 dead
Children are among the victims after a bus fell from an overpass and caught fire.www.bbc.co.uk
Never had a car with that but is there not still a stop button.
