Jaguar EV took me on a 35-minute 'terror ride' as brakes failed at 90mph on M62 before NINE cop cars rammed into me | 981L4XK | 2024-03-09 12:08:01
Nathan Owen tore via purple lights, over a roundabout and down the onerous shoulder as he
A MOTORIST is fortunate to be alive after being taken on a 90mph terror journey down the M62 when his electric automotive's brakes failed.
Nathan Owen tore via purple lights, over a roundabout and down the onerous shoulder as he lost complete control of his Jaguar I-PACE.
Travelling quicker and quicker and dealing with imminent dying, cops managed to field in the runaway EV to finish the 35 minute excessive velocity horror this afternoon.
Badly shaken by the ordeal, the 31-year-old from Bolton, Lancs, informed The Solar: "It was like a film.
"I might've crashed, it might've killed me, it might've killed any person else."
Nathan was heading residence from work in Ormskirk at round 2.30pm when he observed a battery fault within the £32,000 motor.
But as he overtook another automotive the brakes failed and all hell broke lose.
He recalled: "It simply sped me up. It was going as much as 80mph, 90mph. It was simply going quicker and quicker.
"The button handbrake, neutral and reverse gears, nothing worked.
"I attempted doing the cruise management on the steering wheel, it just wasn't occurring."
Bombing down the M62 at speeds of up to 100mph, the driving force was pressured to tear by way of pink lights and a slipway roundabout.
He then careered onto the exhausting shoulder to dodge visitors as he feared for his life.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> The help worker managed to dial 999 and police advised him to remain on the onerous shoulder as they scrambled 9 squad automobiles.
With sirens whirring, they intercepted Nathan's automotive however he smashed into them unable to cease.
He stated: "If you see it in films the automotive goes flying off into the limitations, in order that's all that was going by means of my head, crashing or perhaps killing the police officer.
"There were still automobiles on the opposite aspect of the street, gazing me. I couldn't even see the registration of the police automotive in entrance."
With 50 miles of vary left and still on the telephone to cops, they warned they could possibly be in it for the lengthy haul as they tried to maintain the lanes free until the Jag ran out of juice.
Officers from Merseyside and Higher Manchester Police then used specialist techniques to ram the car and block it in, bringing the hell-raising pursuit to a screeching halt.
The horror unfolded on the eastbound carriageway between J11 for Birchwood and J12 for Eccles.
NOT THE FIRST TIME
Shockingly, Nathan stated right now's incident was not the first time his I-SPACE became a dying machine, as he recalled a separate 18 terror journey on the M62 last yr.
He stated of the December 22 incident: "The automotive simply sped up, I had no brakes in any respect and that was going over 100mph.
"It was silly o'clock at night time, chucking down with rain. I used to be literally panicking, I was ringing my girlfriend, I thought I used to be going to die."
Nathan had taken the I-SPACE in to the storage "each 4 months" since shopping for it simply last yr.
<!--googleoff: all--> <blockquote class="article__quote"> </blockquote> <!--googleon: all--> He says that despite the automotive having battery points – together with false range readings – Jaguar repeatedly informed him there was "nothing incorrect".
The 31-year-old says the batteries have been later part of a recall however he remained driving the automotive underneath the reassurance from Jaguar.
Nathan is now recovering at house following Wednesday's ordeal and the automotive is within the storage.
He says his family are pleading with him to eliminate it.
Jaguar, Merseyside, Higher Manchester and Cheshire Police forces have been approached for comment.
M62 terror as police swarm to stop rushing electrical automotive that can't brake. Lengthy queues have been reported on the M62 after two lanes have been closed[/caption]
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