The driver was forced to weave between traffic without braking for more than half an hour (Picture: MEN Media)
A driver sped down a motorway at 100mph for 35 minutes without any brakes after his electric Jaguar I-Pace malfunctioned.
Nathan Owen, 31, was travelling on the M62 yesterday when the brakes on his £80,000 car began to fail – for the second time in three months.
The crisis support worker was forced to weave between traffic without braking for more than half an hour until the electric vehicle began to run out of power, and police were able to force it to stop.
He said: ‘I thought I was going to end up crashing the car, I’m going to kill myself or I’m going to kill an innocent person on the road.
‘The car was in its own world – it just had no brakes. The speed was going towards about 100mph in the high 90s, going to 100. I thought this was a bit wrong.
‘It came up on the dashboard saying there was a battery malfunction in my car. I kept trying to press the brakes but nothing was happening. So the next thing I thought I should do was call 999 and tell them what was happening.’
Merseyside Police sent at least eight cars to escort Mr Owen down the busy motorway.
He was asked to move into the hard shoulder with his hazards on and try and stay away from other drivers.
Merseyside Police sent at least eight cars to escort Mr Owen down the busy motorway (Picture: Instagram/garethhunt21)
He was asked to move into the hard shoulder with his hazards on
But he had to weave in and out of the far left lane to avoid turn offs and junctions.
Officers closed off two lanes so they could bring him to a stop as safely as possible.
Mr Owen told MailOnline: ‘It was just scary I was just hitting the back of this police officer. I was hitting them at about 90mphs.
‘I was still talking to the operator, and I was worried. I was thinking I could potentially kill myself hitting this police officer at 90, or I could kill him if he loses control.
‘The police officers said they never come across this before and coming down the hard shoulder and the police being behind me, it was like something out a film.’
The car only came to a stop after the miles started running out.
The 2019 Jaguar I-Pace malfunctioned as he was driving on the motorway
The model is also used as a rapid response vehicle for West Midlands Ambulance Service (Picture: VCS)
Afterwards he said he ‘froze in the position of holding the steering wheel’ and could barely register the police officers trying to talk to him.
Pictures show the car wedged between two police vehicles on the eastbound carriageway between J11 for Birchwood and J12 for Eccles.
But this is not the first time this has happened to Mr Owen.
In December, he also lost control of the vehicle as it began reaching speeds of up to 120mph.
‘I ended up phoning the police, the same how I did with this one. I managed to get the car into neutral after me pressing the buttons on the side of the I-Pace,’ he said.
North West Motorway Police revealed what had happened on social media, writing: ‘Police currently have a lane 3 and 4 closure on M62 EB J11 to 12.
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‘This is following the use of tactics to stop an electric vehicle with an electric fault where the driver was unable to brake. Motorway officers from Merseyside, Cheshire and GMP brought the vehicle to a safe stop.’
The Jaguar I-Pace is set to be discontinued before the company’s relaunch in 2025.
The model is also used as a rapid response vehicle for West Midlands Ambulance Service.
A Jaguar Land Rover spokeswoman said: ‘We are aware of an incident involving a Jaguar I-PACE on the M62 on the afternoon of March 6. An investigation is underway into the cause of the incident.’
In October, Brian Morrison, 53, said he was heading home from work when his electric MG ZS suffered a ‘catastrophic malfunction’ which forced him to dodge red lights and roundabouts.
He called the police to ram the car into their van.
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