A terrified driver 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.

Brian Morrison, 53, says was heading home from work on Sunday when his new £30,000 MG ZS EV suffered a ‘catastrophic malfunction’ and began driving itself at 30mph. 

Unable to use the brakes, the motorist called police – who eventually stopped the vehicle by allowing it to slowly crash into their van. 

Mr Morrison, from Glasgow, said that he was ‘lucky’ that the incident had taken place late at night at just after 10pm.

‘I realised something was wrong when I was coming up to a roundabout and went to slow down but it failed to do so,’ he said. 

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Brian Morrison, 53, says was heading home from work on Sunday when his new MG ZS EV suffered a ‘catastrophic malfunction’ and began driving itself at 30mph

Police bringing Mr Morrison’s car to a stop after the terrifying incident in Glasgow. One police car is seen behind and another van in front 

‘Then I heard a loud grinding noise that sounded like brake pads. Because it was such a new car I knew it couldn’t be a problem with them.

‘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. 

‘I have mobility issues, so I couldn’t even jump out – I was completely trapped inside the car going at 30mph.

‘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.’  

Mr Morrison initially called his wife in a panic to ask her to come out and warn cars ahead of him that he was unable to stop. 

After realising that he would soon have to navigate traffic lights and several roundabouts – and worried about crashing into pedestrians and pub-goers – he called 999.

Mr Morrison, from Glasgow , said that he was ‘lucky’ that the incident had taken place late at night at just after 10pm. Pictured here is Mr Morrison’s car (left) being stopped by police 

Describing how the incident began, the driver said: ‘I realised something was wrong when I was coming up to a roundabout and went to slow down but it failed to do so’ 

‘The car was just running away on its own, there was nothing I could do,’ he said. 

‘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.

‘It was the first time that the call handlers had experienced the issue, and they had no idea what to do.

‘So eventually three police vehicles arrived and were driving in front of me and behind me.

‘I was 100% concentrating on my steering, so when a police van pulled up beside me and asked if I was Brian and if I was okay, I just yelled ”No I’m not, I cant stop”’.’

Police initially told Mr Morrison to throw his electronic key through their van window before driving off – but this failed to disengage the engine.

They told him to try different ways of turning off the car, but these failed.  

Eventually, they told Mr Morrison to deliberately drive into the back of their van before he got into a more built-up area.  

Mr Morrison with the MG ZS EV, which costs £30,000 

Mr Morrison said: ‘After trying to shut the car down, my entire dashboard lit up with faults, and then it all went away after a second and just had a big red car symbol that said ‘drive safely, stop driving immediately’ or something.

‘Eventually I came up to a roundabout, which slowed the car down to about 15mph, and the police van was waiting for me on the other side.

‘I went into the back of the van while it was moving, before they put on the brakes to stop me.

‘After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still.

‘After I got out though, they tried moving their van and the car kept going – so they had to sit with the van there for ages until the RAC got there.

‘I still have no idea what happened, but when the RAC got to me about three hours later he plugged in the car to do a diagnostic check and there was pages of faults.

‘He said he had never seen anything like it, and decided he was not willing to turn the engine on to see what was wrong.’

Mr Morrison’s insurance say they are now investigating the incident. He’s seen behind the wheel of the car 

Mr Morrison’s insurance say they are now investigating the incident.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘Around 10.35pm on Sunday, 1 October, we received a report of a driver unable to stop his electric car on the A803 heading towards Kirkintilloch.

‘The car was travelling at a low speed and officers carried out a controlled halt with the aid of a police vehicle. There was no damage to either vehicle. The driver arranged for the vehicle to be recovered.’

MG Cars Europe was contacted for comment.