31 Oct, 2019 @ 09:00
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British driver somehow overturns luxury Mercedes on quiet street on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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LUCKY ESCAPE: The Brit was unharmed in the crash
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LUCKY ESCAPE: The Brit was unharmed in the crash (FACEBOOK)

IMAGES of a vehicle completely on its side has left locals in Marbella scratching their heads. 

It comes after snaps of the overturned car went viral on social media this week.

At around 9.15pm on Tuesday, a British driver is believed to have clipped the right front wheel on the back of a parked car on calle Juan Alameda.

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The force was apparently enough to overturn the car.

The lone driver of the rented silver Mercedes was luckily unharmed and did not need medical attention.

Policia Local breathalysed the Brit but found he was completely sober.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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