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Police were forced to chase a car through northern France after its brakes failed and the driver was left travelling at 125mph.<\/p>\n
Frank Lecerf popped out to visit his local shops but was plunged into chaos when the speed dial of his Renault Laguna jammed at 60mph.<\/p>\n
Any pressure he put on the brakes in a bid to slow down resulted in the car moving faster, soon reaching its top speed.<\/p>\n
Mr Lecerf was able to alert the emergency services and they cleared the road ahead of him and had toll booth barriers raised.<\/p>\n
He later admitted to Le Courrier Picard that his "life flashed before his eyes" and that he had "just wanted it to stop".<\/p>\n
The high-speed chase along the motorway only came to an end after some time when the car ran out of petrol and crashed into a ditch, with Mr Lecerf thankfully escaping from the incident unhurt.
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A bizarre police chase took place when a car’s brakes failed on the motorway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lads-mag-for-armed-forces"],"yoast_head":"\n