Runaway Mini!

[anonymous-user]

This morning I pulled up outside a customer's house in the work truck and was sitting quietly drinking coffee while my boss went to pick up some equipment. All of a sudden for no reason the alarm on the lady's 12 plate Mini started going off, and almost instantaneously the car rolled off down the drive and crashed into the garage wall! It was in neutral with the handbrake on, not an electric handbrake either as far as I could tell so seemingly no reason why it would disengage when the alarm goes off? Amazingly the car only suffered minor scuffs, while the whole wall cracked and bowed in which will require the whole front of the garage to be rebuilt. Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

[anonymous-user]

I hadn't thought of that, certainly sounds possible! She did say she put it on as hard as she could as it was her husband's and she didn't want it to roll down the hill and hit the garage...