Brian Morrison's MG ZS EV had a malfunction near Glasgow and had to crash into a police van to stop.
A driver has told how he was "kidnapped" by his runaway electric car and forced to dodge red lights and roundabouts.
He said he was lucky that the incident had taken place after 22:00 on a Sunday night when the roads were quiet. "I managed to get around the roundabout going at about 30mph and then had a long road ahead of me, so I assumed it would stop without me accelerating - but it didn't."Mr Morrison has mobility issues, so he was unable to escape the car travelling at 30mph by jumping out.
He called 999 when he grew concerned about crashing into pedestrians and navigating more roundabouts and traffic lights."When I dialled 999, they sent police to help and put some engineers on the line to try and solve the problem, and they were asking if it was a self-driving car. Police asked Mr Morrison to throw his electronic key through their van window before driving off, and then tried forcibly shutting off the engine - but nothing could stop the car.
The police could not move their car as the electric vehicle would keep moving, so they had to wait for the RAC to arrive.
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