Sorry gents but I could not let this gem of information go by for those in the Knoteetingham arenas. Just to make sure everyone remains safe, the police have advised people how to handle a failure of their Cruise Control stuck in the ON mode. I love the order of priority to control the defect. Apologies for not being directly avaition related but it is worth the chuckle and know what's going through some other road users minds in our area of operation.
In the event of a cruise control malfunction:
1) Keep calm and make sure your seat belt is on
2) Put on the hazard lights
3) Call 999
So you still have not tried to tackle the runaway car yet while 1 handedly driving to make a phone call and put your seatbelt on.
4) Put the gear on Neutral (N), then turn off the engine
Ok, so you now turn off the engine and your power steering and brakes will fail to operate and you lose complete control!
(there was no step 5 given, the mystery continues)
6) If that fails, push on the brakes firmly and steadily until the car eventually stops
But you now realise the brakes wont work, why is that?
7) If the previous method also fails, slowly pull up the handbrake while firmly holding the steering wheel
Well, firmly holding the steering wheel is as good as anything as you have now lost complete control of your vehicle.
8) If that also fails, change the gear setting from Neutral (N) to Drive (D) repeatedly
The link to the article in a well known local paper from earlier this year is
HERE