I was picking my son up this morning to go shopping. He lives down a country lane in the village. I was driving slowly as I had passed a horse with rider and his house was just on the right. I pulled over to the right to pull up outside his house. I put my foot on the brake lightly as I was already slowing down when the car suddenly went off like a rocket. It ploughed into a Porsche in front of me that went into a VW that pushed a lamp post over then I swerved across the road into a wall and ended up on top of the wall on a fence. Thank God there was nobody walking past or sat in the cars. The air bags activated and I opened my door and got out uninjured.
What on earth happened? Im 62 years old and have been driving safely since I was 17 and own 2 companies with numerous vehicles. No way would I have put my foot on the accelerator by mistake. The police said I may have caught my foot on the accelerator as well as the brake and the car just went off like a rocket he has had previous experience of this with electric cars and personally doesn't like them as he feels they are take off to quickly.
Dash cam footage from a car parked behind where I was pulling in the police man said showed me pulling in slowly and my brake lights come on then go off and come back on again. Surely this means that I did put my brakes on then when the car accelerated I took them immediately off then slammed them on again but the car kept accelerating anyway and was unstoppable until it crashed.
So what really happened, this was all was over in a couple of minutes resulting in my iPace, Porsche being right offs (very unhappy neighbour) VW damaged, lamp post knocked right over and fence and part of wall destroyed.
Couple of months earlier the iPace had gone back to the manufacturers for a month as there was a problem with the battery charger, and the car lost total power, not before all the windows opened for some reason!
If anybody has had similar problems I would really like to know to compare, this had really unnerved me and I seriously thinking of going back to a diesel car.
Thanking you in advance
Julie
What on earth happened? Im 62 years old and have been driving safely since I was 17 and own 2 companies with numerous vehicles. No way would I have put my foot on the accelerator by mistake. The police said I may have caught my foot on the accelerator as well as the brake and the car just went off like a rocket he has had previous experience of this with electric cars and personally doesn't like them as he feels they are take off to quickly.
Dash cam footage from a car parked behind where I was pulling in the police man said showed me pulling in slowly and my brake lights come on then go off and come back on again. Surely this means that I did put my brakes on then when the car accelerated I took them immediately off then slammed them on again but the car kept accelerating anyway and was unstoppable until it crashed.
So what really happened, this was all was over in a couple of minutes resulting in my iPace, Porsche being right offs (very unhappy neighbour) VW damaged, lamp post knocked right over and fence and part of wall destroyed.
Couple of months earlier the iPace had gone back to the manufacturers for a month as there was a problem with the battery charger, and the car lost total power, not before all the windows opened for some reason!
If anybody has had similar problems I would really like to know to compare, this had really unnerved me and I seriously thinking of going back to a diesel car.
Thanking you in advance
Julie