Watch: Van’s comical backwards journey to DIY store carpark after parking on double yellows
The driver of this van was in a rush when he left it with the motor running on double yellows outside DIY store Twiggs of Matlock.
However he was left scratching his head when he came back out minutes later to find the trusty work chariot had finished. Amazingly, as seen in the footage, despite rolling backwards while narrowly missing a lamp post and several motorists there were no collisions.
Ironically, the vehicle eventually came to rest at the entrance to the DIY store car park on the opposite side of Bakewell Road – where it should have parked in the first place.
However the hapless plumber who the owned the van spent the next 90 minutes trying to get back into his car where it stopped as the doors had locked while it was rolling. It is understood after breaking the window he was on his way again.
Staff at the store described the moment the penny dropped for the harangued tradesman. Twiggs plumbing supplies manager Adam Warburton said: “The look on face was like, where the hell’s my van gone.” It is thought that the breaks on the van may have overheated, causing give in the handbrake as they cooled and the resulting backwards roll. Speaking about the footage, which has attracted 180,000 views in two days on Facebook, Adam said: “We thought we’d post it to give a few of our regulars a laugh.
"Just one of those comical moments – he just dumped it on the double yellows and it went on that comical trail before landing in our carpark – which was just the icing on the cake.”