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07.03.2024 - 10:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A terrified driver said he thought he could have been killed after the brakes on his electric Jaguar failed on the M62.
Drama unfolded after the Jaguar I-PACE vehicle malfunctioned on the eastbound carriageway of the motorway towards Eccles yesterday afternoon (Wednesday). The runaway vehicle sped uncontrollably down the M62 reaching speeds of 90mph before police used specialist tactics to ram it and bring it to a halt.
Now the driver, Nathan Owen has spoken out on the horrifying ordeal, revealing that he thought he could have been killed. The 31-year-old, who lives in Bolton, also revealed this was not the first time his car had gone rogue on a motorway.
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Speaking to Mail Online, he said he was driving from his new job as a crisis support worker with children in Ormskirk at around 2.30pm when he tried to overtake another car.
Mr Owen, originally from North Wales, said: "The car literally just started speeding up. I couldn't press the 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."
Mr Owen added: "The car was in its own world - it just had no brakes. The worst thing about it is that it's happened before."
He said: "In the back of my mind, I was thinking I'm going to end up crashing the car, I'm going to kill myself or I'm going to kill an innocent person on the roads."
Mr Owen spent the next 35 minutes surrounded by police cars at as officers
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