World’s Craziest Car Crash

It was an arrival that would have made James Bond proud. The location was perfect - a sunny day in a foreign country - and of course, a British driver at the wheel. The holidaymaker and his wife had been driving in the hills near Marbella, in Spain, drinking in the view. Then came the piece de resistance.

As he drove round a bend, the driver, in his sixties, is thought to have pressed the accelerator instead of the brake. And instead of slowing down, his rented Ford Focus sped through a wall, left the road ... and took flight. It landed about 30ft down the hill, embedded in the outside stairwell of an apartment block.