A man says he was ''kidnapped'' by his own runaway electric car - forcing him to dodge red lights and roundabouts and call police to ram it off the road.<br /><br />Brian Morrison, 53, says his new posh motor started driving itself - and he had to dial 999 from inside.<br /><br />He had been heading home from work on Sunday (1/10) when he says his brand new electric car decided to take control - and the brakes wouldn't work.<br /><br />Becoming stuck at 30mph he says his MG ZS EV fully electric vehicle suffered a ''catastrophic malfunction''.<br /><br />Brian called police who were forced to forcibly stop the runaway car by allowing it to slowly crash into their police van.<br /><br />Even after forcing the car to a halt Brian says that the car tried to keep moving once police tried moving their vehicle.<br /><br />A roadside repair mechanic later said they had 'never seen' anything like the incident.<br /><br />Brian, from Glasgow, Scotland, said that he was 'lucky' that the incident had taken place late at night at just after 10pm.<br /><br />He said: “I realised something was wrong when I was coming up to a roundabout, and went to slow down - but it didn't do it.<br /><br />"Then I heard a loud grinding noise that sounded like break pads - but because it was such a new car I knew it couldn't be a problem with them.<br /><br />"I managed to get around roundabout going at about 30mph, and and then had long road ahead of me, so I assumed it would stop without me accelerating - but it didn't.<br /><br />"I have mobility issues, so I couldn't even jump out - I was completely trapped inside the car going at 30mph. <br /><br />"It might not sound like it is very fast, but when you have no control over the speed and you're completely stuck inside it's terrifying."<br /><br />Brian initially called his wife in a panic to ask her to warn cars ahead of him that he could not stop his car.<br /><br />After realising that he would soon have to navigate traffic lights and several roundabouts, and worried about crashing into pedestrians and pub-goers headed home, he eventually called 999.<br /><br />He said: “The car was just running away on its own, there was nothing I could do.<br /><br />"When I dialed 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.<br /><br />"It was the first time that the call handlers had experienced the issue, and they had no idea what to do. <br /><br />''So eventually three police vehicles arrived and were driving in front of me and behind me.<br /><br />"I was 100% concentrating on my steering, so when a police van pulled up besides me and asked if I was Brian and if I was okay, I just yelled 'no i'm not, I cant stop'."<br /><br />Police initially tried having Brian throw his electronic key through their van window before driving off - but this failed to disengage the engine. <br /><br />After that, they tried to get Brian to forcibly shut off the engine by pressing the power button three times, which also failed. <br /><br />He then was asked to hold the power button for over two seconds, which also failed to stop the car.
