VIDEO: Bentley Continental Flying Spur gets stuck in the sand at Marazion - Western Morning News
This video captures the embarrassing moment a £120,000 Bentley got stuck on a beach in Cornwall - and had to be rescued by a tractor. The wealthy driver - believed to be a Russian in his early 20s - drove onto a Cornish beach but failed to take into account the weight of his 2. 5-tonne luxury vehicle. It took a team of locals over five hours to free the Continental Flying Spur, which was eventually pulled out by a tractor. However, the car did not escape unharmed - the towing hook snapped off during attempts to free it with the agricultural vehicle. They snapped the towing eye of the Bentley trying to get it out. The Bentley driver had ventured onto the beach to have a barbecue with his family and had apparently mistaken the slipway for an extension of the car park. When they had finished the barbecue the family went to leave, but realised they had become stuck. Ryan said: "I think he went down for a barbecue. "There is a car park where you are supposed to park, but he drove straight down onto the beach. "All their stuff was still on the beach, when they went to leave the car had got stuck on the sand - the sand is quite soft at. Source: www.westernmorningnews.co.uk
