Ian Hunt
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- Feb 16, 2010
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Very worrying experience this morning.
I was working from home, sipping coffee, not yet dressed at about 8.30. Glanced out of the window to see the T2 reversing off the drive
. I thought it was being nicked. I then realised there was no one in it.
I rushed out & down the steep icy drive barefoot in my dressing gown, thinking the handbrake must've given up; my heart pounding as I didn't know where it would stop and at that time of the day there are children walking past to school in the snow, mums loading their little'uns into cars, people off to work etc.
Thankfully it came to a halt half way across the pavement, narrowly missing the stone gateposts & a neighbours car (in the process of being loaded with children).
The handbrake was firmly on, it was in gear and in 4wd. Scratch marks on the drive & the ice seem to indicate that the tyres just broke traction & the car set off downhill on its own.
I've never seen anything like it before outside of "Ice Road Truckers" :nenau and I feel extremely lucky and very relieved that nobody was in its path when it happened. Thank God :bow!
Since then the car has new tyres on (the old ones were road biased but with loads of tread), the drive has had a sack of grit spread over it and the Terrano is now parked less steeply with its front wheels on the drive and the back out into the road.
I was working from home, sipping coffee, not yet dressed at about 8.30. Glanced out of the window to see the T2 reversing off the drive
. I thought it was being nicked. I then realised there was no one in it. I rushed out & down the steep icy drive barefoot in my dressing gown, thinking the handbrake must've given up; my heart pounding as I didn't know where it would stop and at that time of the day there are children walking past to school in the snow, mums loading their little'uns into cars, people off to work etc.
Thankfully it came to a halt half way across the pavement, narrowly missing the stone gateposts & a neighbours car (in the process of being loaded with children).
The handbrake was firmly on, it was in gear and in 4wd. Scratch marks on the drive & the ice seem to indicate that the tyres just broke traction & the car set off downhill on its own.
I've never seen anything like it before outside of "Ice Road Truckers" :nenau and I feel extremely lucky and very relieved that nobody was in its path when it happened. Thank God :bow!
Since then the car has new tyres on (the old ones were road biased but with loads of tread), the drive has had a sack of grit spread over it and the Terrano is now parked less steeply with its front wheels on the drive and the back out into the road.
