2023-10-05 02:24:45
Brian Morrison, a fifty-year-old British man, found himself taken hostage by his electric car while returning from work on Sunday evening.
He found himself stuck in his brand new MG Motors car which was traveling at 50 km/h and whose brakes did not work. He was forced to call for help from the driver’s seat of his car while on the run.
“The car was driving on its own, I couldn’t do anything to stop it,” he testified in an interview with the BBC.
While calling emergency services, the driver was able to pass through several obstacles such as a roundabout and red lights.
“When I called the emergency services, they sent the police to help me and put engineers on the phones,” Mr Morrison said. The dispatchers had never seen a problem like this and didn’t know what to do.”
Police had to stage a controlled collision with one of their vehicles to slow down Mr. Morrison’s car before he reached a busier area. This last resort maneuver was carried out after several attempts by the officers and the driver to turn off the car from the inside, without success.
No one wanted to restart the engine for fear that the car would run away again. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said a roadside assistance worker after the incident.
According to Glasgow Police, neither vehicle was damaged in the collision.
Mr Morrison counts himself lucky that the incident happened on a Sunday evening at 10pm, as there was almost no one on the road.
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