Shocking moment £47,000 electric Jaguar goes 'rogue' and reverses into a Porsche before shooting forwards and smashing into a Tesla and Mercedes in crash which caused £150,000 of damage
Business owner Andrew Key was powerless to act as his £47,000 Jaguar E-Pace suddenly reversed at speed into a Porsche Boxster parked behind him.
The Jaguar mounted the black sports car and ended up on its roof.
Mr Key, 60, said despite slamming on the brakes his car then shot forwards and smashed into a Tesla Model Y parked in front. The Tesla in turn shunted a Mercedes C-Class car.
Luckily, nobody was in the Porsche at the time but a woman who was sat in the Tesla was left in shock.
The dramatic incident, which caused over £150,000 damage to all four cars, was captured on the dashcam of the Jaguar and Tesla.
It happened in the drop-off zone outside a busy Bournemouth railway station last October. Mr Key, the managing director of a private health care company, said it was a miracle nobody was seriously hurt or killed.
To add insult to injury, he received a fixed penalty notice by Dorset police for a 'driving offence' following the incident.
Mr Key, who has passed an advanced driver course, is adamant he was not to blame for the collision and insists his Jaguar had 'become faulty'.
But he was livid when Jaguar examined his car and reported there was nothing wrong with it and the accident must have been down to driver error.
It is the third reported incident of a Jaguar electric car apparently going 'rogue'.
Craig Phillips, the first winner of Big Brother, claimed the brakes on his electric Jaguar I-Pace failed as he was driving with his young children near his home in Merseyside on New Year's Eve.
Earlier this month the driver of a Jaguar I-Pace claimed his vehicle accelerated at up to 100mph on the M62 and had to be brought to a stop by police. However, the driver has since been charged over the matter.
Mr Key said: 'They said it was my fault and that I hit the accelerator. I didn't. I'm a civilian advanced driver and I've had a really excellent safety record and I haven't done anything like this before.
'I even went to hospital later on just to be sure I've not had a brain episode or a stroke, but I'm fine.
'My contention is that Jaguar provided me with a defective and dangerous vehicle, which resulted in a dramatic crash in which, miraculously, no one was seriously hurt.
'Given that this occurred outside a busy train station, next to a large Asda and a busy coach and bus station at rush hour, someone could easily have been killed.
'It was an event in which significant energy was deployed. So why didn't the following systems deploy: collision avoidance, seatbelt warnings, SOS assistance, air bags.'
Mr Key, from Bournemouth, was given the 2022 Jaguar 18 months ago as a semi-retirement gift.
He had gone to Bournemouth station to pick up a friend when the incident happened. He said he put the automatic car in park mode, undid his seatbelt and was about to get out when it went into reverse.
He said: 'The engine was off and I was in park. I reached over to get my hat from the passenger seat and suddenly I was aware the car was moving backwards.
'I didn't know why, my feet were nowhere near the pedals. I hit the brake pedal thinking that would stop it but nothing happened. I hit it several times and there was just nothing. I couldn't understand how it was moving from a standing stop.
'It impacted a Porsche Boxster parked behind it. Not only did it impact it, but my car mounted it. I realised my car was on top of it and I just thought 'I really hope there is nobody in it'. Thankfully nobody was.
'My car then shot forward and I saw the Tesla in front and knew I was going to hit it and the Tesla then shunted a Mercedes.
'There was a lady in the Tesla and she was really upset. Then the Porsche owner appeared and she was very upset and was crying and distressed.
'All I could do was tell them it wasn't my fault and that the car moved on its own accord and that it wasn't my fault but they didn't believe me.'
Mr Key said he had experienced a previous faults with the electronics on his Jaguar when the collision avoidance system suddenly activated and brought the vehicle to a dead stop in the middle of the road.
He initially complained to Jaguar Hendy of Christchurch, where he bought the car, after the incident outside the train station but said they stopped responding to his emails.
He then went to Jaguar's head office in Coventry and made a complaint to them. They checked his car's telematics, the black box and send a report.
Mr Key said: 'They said I must have put my foot on the accelerator but I replied to sat 'no, that didn't happen.'
'It's an automatic and it's controlled by software and apps and stuff. There is a fault with these Jaguar models.
'I'm not interested in compensation, a new car or anything like that. There is something wrong with these cars and Jaguar needs to do something about it before someone is killed.'
Mr Key's Jaguar was written off following the incident and he has now replaced it with a Dacia Stepway.
It comes as the first-ever Big Brother winner revealed to MailOnline how he became trapped behind the wheel of his £76,000 Jaguar I-Pace while his wife and two young children were in the car after the brakes stopped working.
TV personality Craig Phillips, 52, is the latest electric vehicle driver to come forward with a horror story about being 'kidnapped' by a runaway car.
He revealed how within days of having his Jaguar returned from the manufacturer for a separate issue, he was unable to use his brakes as he approached a red light with two cars in front of him and traffic coming towards him in the opposite lane.
A Jaguar spokesperson, disputing Mr Key's claims, said: 'Following an investigation into this, it was found there had been no brake failure, nor any other issue with the vehicle.'
Police said that Mr Key received a fixed penalty notice for a driving offence following the incident at Bournemouth railway station.
A spokesman for Dorset Police said: 'At 5.28pm on October 18, 2023, Dorset Police received a report of a four-vehicle road traffic collision at Bournemouth railway station.
'Officers attended the scene.
'No injuries were reported and following enquiries by officers, no arrests were made. A 60-year-old man from Bournemouth received a fixed penalty notice for a driving offence.'
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Incredible moment Senator John Kennedy destroys Olympic skier Gus Schumacher after Democrats invited him to testify as 'expert witness' on climate change
Senate Democrats were left red-faced at a hearing on climate change as their 'expert witness' proved to be anything but when faced by veteran senator John Kennedy.
Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse invited Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to give his perspective as the committee considered the impact of climate change on the recreation industry.
But it was all downhill for the 23-year-old as he struggled to answer basic questions and could not remember his tweets claiming the war on drugs was designed to jail black people, and calling for the police to be abolished.
The excruciating exchange continued with Schumacher insisting carbon dioxide is a 'huge part of our atmosphere', before Kennedy pointed out that it accounts for 0.04 percent.
'Well, okay. But, yeah. I don't know,' the skier admitted.
Introducing the hearing, Senator Whitehouse praised the quality of the 'highly credible witnesses' the committee had heard from.
'We have heard warnings from economists, scientists, medical professionals, insurance and investment executives, even a former Republican Senate Majority Leader. They warn of danger ahead.'
But there was danger ahead for Schumacher as he tried to fend off Kennedy's interrogation which began with a question about what carbon dioxide is.
'I went to high school, but carbon dioxide is a gas,' the skier told him. 'I'm not a professional to talk about carbon dioxide so much.
But Kennedy demanded an explanation about the gas's role in climate change.
'Carbon dioxide is, what I see it as, you know, a gas that exists in our atmosphere,' Schumacher explained.
'Is it a major part of our atmosphere?' Kennedy asked innocently.
'It's a huge part of our atmosphere,' the skier insisted.
'It's a very small part of our atmosphere,' the Senator pointed out.
'Well, okay. But, yeah. I don't know. What are you asking specifically?' Schumacher replied.
'You said we need to reduce carbon emissions,' Kennedy reminded him, 'I'd like to know first if you know what it is.'
Schumacher, who competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, insisted he had seen 'climate change dramatically alter the conditions for winter sports,' during his decade or so on the slopes.
And Kennedy was keen to test his expertise on other issues he had weighed in on including a 2020 retweet claiming the 'war on drugs was intentionally created to incarcerate black people en masse'.
'Who intentionally created the 'war on drugs' to put black people in jail?' Kennedy demanded.
Schumacher said he did not remember the tweet, adding: 'I'm here as an athlete giving you my story of what I've seen in my field.'
The senator then asked about a tweet calling for the police to 'abolished' and replaced with a new service.
'You think we ought to abolish the police?' Kennedy asked. 'Should we do that before or after we get rid of fossil fuels?'
'I'm not going to address that,' the skier replied.
Footage of the head-clutching exchange left viewers baffled as to why he had been invited with some suggesting he should stick to what he knows.
'I just like play in the snow and I like noticed the snow wasn't so snowy anymore,' tweeted one.
'It's sad this fella went to the Senate to speak about Carbon dioxide and it's effect on the environment and he has no clue,' added another.
'He thought it would be fun to go advise the Senate on an important issue. That fun ended at Senator John Kennedy,' wrote a third.
Schumacher deleted the X account from which the senator quoted at Wednesday's hearing.
And though some compared him to the gormless surfer Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemount High, the young Alaskan did not seem fazed by his mauling at the hands of the Republican Senator, insisting it had been a 'huge honor'.
'I don't pretend to be an expert, but I'm using my platform to elevate the issue!' he wrote on Facebook.
'I hope that my testimony has made an impact on public officials making policy decisions.'
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Humans Are Not Primary Drivers Of CO2 Increases
“From modern instrumental carbon isotopic data of the last 40 years, no signs of human (fossil fuel) CO2 emissions can be discerned.” –Koutsoyiannis, 2024
It is routinely claimed that a telltale sign human emissions (fossil fuels) have irrevocably altered the atmospheric CO2 concentration is a declining trend in carbon isotope 13 (δ13C), considered an interruption of natural carbon cycle processes.
But new research examining isotopic data from four observation sites (South Pole, Mauna Loa, Barrow, La Jolla – regarded as “global” in their coverage) indicates there is no isotopic pattern consistent with a human fingerprint.
“The standard metric δ13C is consistent with an input isotopic signature that is stable over the entire period of observations (>40 years), i.e., not affected by increases in human CO2 emissions.”
In fact, not only has the input isotopic CO2 signature not been declining as proposed by those who believe humans are fully responsible for the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, but, according to multiple detection techniques using both modern data and paleo-data extending to the Little Ice Age (16th to mid-19th century), δ13C [input] has been increasing.
This directionality is the exact opposite of what is supposed to happen if fossil fuels were driving atmospheric CO2 increases.
“…for the longer subperiod lengths, 20 and 30 years, the tendencies are clearly increasing, opposite to the hypothesis that they are caused by fossil fuel emissions”
“…the trends are small and always positive, again contradicting the fossil fuel origin of the phenomenon”
“…from period B to C [1899-1976 to 1977-1997], we note an increase in δ13C [input, from -13.9 to -12.9 percent], contradicting the fossil fuel origin of the phenomenon”
https://principia-scientific.com/humans-are-not-primary-drivers-of-co2-increases/
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