You don't get that problem with a Saab.

What does Roadcraft have to say?

I am currently witnessing a tale of woe from another failed Electric Parking Brake, so this may become more common as they EPB takes over the world. Leave it in gear should be mandatory on any car with one of these useless contraptions.

A police force is spending thousands of pounds every month repairing patrol cars and property because officers are failing to apply the handbrake.

There were seven incidents in six months.

Pretty basic error, I would have thought.

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I guess the original post and subsequent responses aren't intended to be taken in rigid seriousness and feel sure that most of us realise that a percentage....and possibly a good percentage...of the mishaps may well have occurred in the heat of the moment during operational incidents. Perhaps only a few here have had the experience of a pursuit - maybe a frustrating one with possibly serious outcomes looming - and in the rush to perform whatever duty is being called for, jumps out of the vehicle and doesn't fully conform to the criteria laid out in regulations and in Roadcraft. Easy to criticise from the armchair - less easy perhaps in a life threatening situation, at three in the morning, in the pouring rain, with three drug crazed scrotes doing their adrenaline fuelled best to evade capture having just robbed/beaten up/crashed/...whatever or whoever happened to be th victim on that occasion.?

But, as the Deputy Chief Constable says: although his staff had to operate in challenging circumstances, often having to leave their vehicles quickly dealing with emergency incidents "they needed to be reminded that public safety is critical ".

(My bold)