Handbrake fail in Nottingham street caught on CCTV

CCTV cameras capture the moment a car with its handbrake left off ends up in a neighbour’s hedge

CCTV cameras installed at a house on a street in Nottingham, have captured the moment a car with its handbrake left off has took on a life of its own and run into one of the neighbour’s hedge.

The incident was captured via CCTV cameras on a residential street in Arnold, Nottingham and looked as though it all happened in slow-motion.

On Sunday afternoon, January 15, the car was parked up on Bagnall Avenue, however because the handbrake had been left off, the vehicle ended up rolling its way onto Orchard Grove.

It’s driverless journey was rather graceful and amazingly trouble free, missing two other vehicles without leaving a mark on either of them, eventually stopping thanks to a neighbour’s hedge.

The CCTV footage which captured the whole incident was via cameras installed on the front of a house on Orchard Grove.

Daniel Goslawski, aged 34, said that he never noticed anything at first until some of his friends turned up and said a car had parked in front of his house.

The travelling car’s handbrake had been left off and rolled its way in between Mr Goslawski’s Ford Focus estate and his Ford Mondeo. Luckily the Focus estate wasn’t parked in its usual spot, otherwise the visiting car would have struck it.

It turned out the travelling car belonged to someone visiting a property on Bagnall Street.

Mr Goslawski made contact with the owners of the car but as only a bit of damage to his fence was caused, no claim had to be made.

“It was lucky for me – but also lucky for him!” added Mr Goslawski.

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