  It is underlined that the Lienard-Wiechert solutions indicate that after the
external force is instantly removed from a small charged particle, the field in
its close neighborhood becomes a Lorentz boosted Coulomb field. It suggests
that the force of the self-field on the particle should instantaneously vanish
after a sudden removal of the external force. A minimal modification of
Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation is searched seeking to implement this property.
A term assuring this behavior is added to the equation by maintaining Lorentz
covariance and vanishing scalar product with the four-velocity. The simple
Dirac constant force example does not show runaway acceleration.
