- Vicky Lane tried as hard as she could to stop the car from rolling
- The account manager sprinted down the driveway in Hemel Hempstead
- She nearly took down a fence during the pursuit of her runaway vehicle
This is the hilarious moment a woman was forced to chase her car down the drive after she failed to put her handbrake on properly.
Vicky Lane, 23, just got home from a long day at work on January 2 but the moment she left her Audi Q2, it started to roll forward.
The account manager was shocked and tried as hard as she could to stop the car from rolling into the road and she nearly took down a fence in the process.
Vicky, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, said: ‘I just thought, do I run with it or jump on top of it!
‘The only thing going through my head was my dad telling me off if I crash again.’
Thankfully, Vicky managed to stop the car before it headed straight into a wall at the end of the drive and she was fortunately uninjured by the events.
She added: ‘I wasn’t injured! Just my ego!’
Vicky also admitted that this had happened to her twice before. On one occasion, it occurred in a supermarket car park.
She went on: ‘This is the third time it’s happened.
‘It happened once in a Tesco car park and it blocked the whole entrance for 20 minutes.’
Electronic parking brakes are becoming increasingly common in the latest cars.
Analysis of mainstream new models on sale in showrooms at the end of 2022 found that only 13 per cent had a traditional manual handbrake.
This conventional part is set to become a forgotten component in vehicles before the end of the decade, which will be accelerated by the shift to electric vehicles (EVs), which predominantly have electronic parking brakes like the one fitted to Lane’s Audi Q2 crossover.
The majority of the remaining 87 per cent of new cars in dealers were found to have electronic parking brakes, which experts warn are far more expensive to fix if they go wrong.
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Richard Percival
