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This s the moment Father Christmas suffered an embarrassing slip-up - after a BROKEN CLUTCH meant his sleigh couldn’t stop.

Santa was left red-faced after replacing Rudolph with a car while doing a charity drive through Warrington .

Footage of the hilarious moment was shared by hundreds after being uploaded to Facebook.

In the clip, Father Christmas can be heard saying “Merry Christmas everybody, we’ve got a problem with the car, the clutch has gone. I can’t stop, the clutch has gone on the car” as he drives down the street to the theme tune of Christmas favourite The Snowman.

Jennie Williams, who uploaded the footage, said: “Only in Warrington would Father Christmas say he ‘can’t stop, the clutch has gone on the car’.

The hilarious moment was captured on film as he travelled down Cumberland Street in Warrington.

Locals have said the Father Christmas is set to return tonight, December 14, to make up for his car troubles.

How can my kids track the REAL Santa on Christmas Eve?

When the big day finally arrives, dozens of children will be able to track Santa online thanks to NORAD - the North America Aerospace Defence Command.

NORAD spend the other 11 months of the year monitoring the US airspace, but for the last 60 years they’ve also been tracking Father Christmas on his Christmas journey.

It all started in 1955, when a business ad encouraging children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number - so instead of reaching Father Christmas, thousands of children were put through to the operations “hotline” for Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD).

When he realised what was happening, Director of Operations Colonel Harry Shoup - who came to be known as the “Santa Colonel” - quickly told his staff to answer the calls with an update on Father Christmas’s current position.

From 1958, NORAD took on the responsibility of tracking Santa around the world on Christmas Eve, with volunteers manning call centres on Christmas Eve and fielding around 70,000 phone calls each year from 200 countries.

Of course, the tradition had progressed as technology has advanced, and we now have the online NORAD Santa Tracker.

Visit www.noradsanta.org to track Santa across the globe from 8pm on Christmas Eve.