A motorist who claimed his electric Jaguar had become uncontrollable on a busy motorway has been jailed after investigators found the incident was an elaborate fraud intended to escape mounting financial difficulties. Police escorted the car across several motorways before it eventually came to a halt only after its battery was exhausted. According to prosecutors, Owen contacted emergency services shortly after 2pm, telling operators his Jaguar was accelerating uncontrollably and that he could not apply the brakes. A joint investigation by Merseyside Police and Jaguar Land Rover found no evidence that the vehicle had malfunctioned. He added that the defendant had endangered road workers, police officers and other motorists by staging what became one of the region's most significant motorway emergency responses.