diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 665228c..0bfd055 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -569,6 +569,8 @@ class HTML(BaseParser):
                     page = None
                 return content, result, page
             except TimeoutError:
+                await page.close()
+                page = None
                 return None
 
         self.session.browser  # Automatically create a event loop and browser