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In order to get his boat out of the water, the driver of a Mercedes-Benz E-Class thought he could take the premium sedan for a swim in Spain. Unfortunately, the E-Class became stranded on the beach, and the driver was fined by the police for his reckless driving.
The Santa Pola Police Department shared this photo of the white Mercedes on Facebook. During a patrol on Santa Pola’s sandy coast, officers came across the stranded vehicle. In addition to taking a photo, they fined the driver €751 ($763) for driving illegally on the beach.
The vehicle is a pre-facelifted E-Class that was sold between 2016 and 2020. The bumper suggests that it is a regular diesel-powered, rear-wheel-drive variant, though it could have the 4MATIC all-wheel-drive system. In any case, driving your sedan through saltwater on road tyres is never a good idea. Wet sand and seaweed are the worst when it comes to traction, as I discovered the hard way this winter.
The Santa Pola beach appears to be quite shallow, so it should be easy for a tractor to tow both the car and the trailer back onto the land. We guess that next time, the driver of the Mercedes will use a proper ramp to load his boat. Under the police’s post on Facebook, a commenter complained that the Mediterranean coast of Spain has only a few ramps accessible to the public, with some of them being in bad condition. Still, this is not an excuse for the Mercedes driver who beached the sedan during the peak summer season.
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We know that parking on the coast in August is somewhat complicated but… when the patrol came we realized that it was something else:
🛳 After sailing with a boat through the area reserved for swimmers from La Cadena, this driver tried to finally get his boat out of the stranding channel… but in this way. 🙈
The #BeachService intervenes to guarantee safety and apply our Ordinance for the Management and Public Use of Beaches 🏖
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