Man saves children in runaway car

Mr Cashmore said he was "glad all the kids were OK"

A father leapt into a runaway car to save his three young children after the brakes failed.

Chris Cashmore had just put his children into the Toyota Previa when it started rolling down a steep bank towards a house in Plymouth, Devon.

The 26-year-old scrambled into the front of the vehicle, pressing the brake with one hand and steering the car away from danger with the other.

Bradley, five, Courtney, 19 months and Demi six months were unhurt.

The car's door was torn off after it picked up speed running down the bank and crashed into a neighbour's garden fence.

Mr Cashmore said: "I felt the car rolling and I just panicked and jumped out and ran alongside it to get in the front seat.

"I managed to put my right hand on the brake pedal and my other hand was on the steering wheel just trying to steer it away from the house.

"I was just glad all the kids were OK."