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read this in the sun on saturday but the guy still looks a little white from his experience! :shock: A motorist drove for 60 miles at speeds of 135mph after the accelerator on his BMW car jammed and his brakes failed.
Kevin Nicolle, 26, was on the A1 near Thirsk in North Yorkshire when the car started to accelerate.
"I was in tears most of the time on the phone to the police - I really could see myself dying," he told the BBC.
He had to drive on the hard shoulder to avoid crashing but eventually lost control and hit a roundabout near Blyth, Notts, but escaped unhurt.
Speaking to BBC Five Live about the incident on 5 March Mr Nicolle said: "I was travelling down the motorway and I came to traffic in front of me.
"I took my foot off the accelerator because it's automatic - but I wasn't slowing down at all.
"I hit the brakes. They were braking ok, they were keeping me at about 70mph.
"So I phoned up the police after I called the AA and they said straight away 'stick your hazard lights on and headlights on - we've got a helicopter en route to you'."
Police patrol cars were also sent but struggled to catch up with the BMW 318.
'Survived accident'
Mr Nicolle said: "Then the brakes started burning out - I could see smoke coming from the brakes."
He tried to put the car into neutral but the gears were jammed.
Mr Nicolle was in constant contact with the police on a hands-free phone.
As he approached Blyth he saw a sign for a roundabout.
"There was a load of cars parked waiting to go onto the roundabout, so I went on the inside on the hard shoulder to try to get around it.
"But doing that sort of speed there was no chance and I hit the roundabout head on.
"I remember the 999 lady saying 'he's crashed'.
"I survived the accident but I thought I was going to die in the fire."
But miraculously he walked away completely unhurt - and said he is now considering giving up driving for good.
Mr Nicolle said the police took the car away for tests and BMW said they would carry out a full investigation.
BMW's UK media relations manager, Duncan Forrester, said: "I would certainly like to reassure anybody driving any BMW that we see this as really nothing more than a freak accident.
"We have absolutely no record of anything such as this happening in the past, hence the reason why we want to take a close look at it."
The R reg car had 107,000 miles on the clock and had three months remaining on the MOT.
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Plays in midfield and his name is Tommy Miller,
signed him from Huddersfield his name is Tommy Miller,
first touch is average but his second is a killer,
heeeeeey Tommy Miller!
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« Reply #1 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:30:44 » |
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I've tried the same excuse myself a few times.
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:33:34 » |
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oldest trick in the book
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Genius, Gentleman Explorer, French Cabaret Chantoose and Small Bets Placed and someone who knows who they are changed my signature but its only know that I can be arsed to change it....and I mean all the spelling mistakes.
Was it me? It can't have been an interesting enough event for me to remember - fB.
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:40:37 » |
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Why not turn the engine off?
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:42:45 » |
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Why not turn the engine off? Power steering would go surely? If he hadn't been on the phone to the police while it was happening I'd have been dubious too... |
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:53:08 » |
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Yeah but you can still steer a car without power steering and he was only on the hard shoulder of the motorway which is normally pretty straight
I would choose to turn the engine off and not have power steering rather than crash into a roundabout at 135Mph. Dumb muther
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« Reply #6 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:59:09 » |
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my mate turned his car off going down a hill to save petrol :-))( , then the steering locked because the car was not on, good job he wasn't going to fast  |
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Plays in midfield and his name is Tommy Miller,
signed him from Huddersfield his name is Tommy Miller,
first touch is average but his second is a killer,
heeeeeey Tommy Miller!
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« Reply #7 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 12:19:40 » |
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Agreed, seen similar story before - an accelator doesn't jam! Bet the retard had been playing with his cruise control or something but like everyone else has said, turn off engine (don't remove key otherwise steering lock comes on!) and then use handbrake to aid the slowing down process...
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« Reply #8 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 12:36:35 » |
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Reminds me of that lorry drver who 'heroically' stopped his lorry by using the central reservation barrier after his brakes failed.
A few day later the loon had been arrested after it was found he tampered with his air brakes on purpose to create the situation. Presumably he was a) mad and b) attention seeking??
Assuming BMW man is genuine that would be brown trouser time. However he is not the first BMW driver to fly down the outside lane at 130 MPH whilst chatting on his phone.
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« Reply #9 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 12:39:19 » |
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Assuming BMW man is genuine that would be brown trouser time. However he is not the first BMW driver to fly down the outside lane at 130 MPH whilst chatting on his phone.
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« Reply #10 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 14:11:13 » |
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My dad's accelerator cable got stuck once. It can happen...
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« Reply #11 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:40:08 » |
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My dad's accelerator cable got stuck once. It can happen... did he manage to get to 135mph before he realised something had fucked up ?! if you can't stick it in neutral, then turn the engine off, air resistance alone at that sort of speed will slow you quite quickly to less than 100 - OK the power steering might stop, (which happened to me once when I had a passat that kept stalling whenever you had the headlights on at low revs at about 10 mph so not too dangerous !) but at least you'll slow down - there isn't much you can steer round at 100+mph anyway, and if i'm going to pile into anything i'd rather take my chances at the lowest speed possible ! With the engine off you might also be able to slow completely without burning the brakes out. Some brakes are power assisted as well, but if you stand on the pedal with both feet you can still stop a bit (same shitty passat...) |
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« Reply #12 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:50:19 » |
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No he didn't get to that speed. The bloke was probably going too fast in the first place. I was just merely highlighting that it could happen.
Also, where does it say it got to 135mph when he realised? It actually said he kept the car to 70mph for a while by braking.
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« Reply #13 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:53:46 » |
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In a normal manual car, you'd just dip the clutch, i assume.
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« Reply #14 on: Monday, March 13, 2006, 17:26:44 » |
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Should've put the handbrake on.
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