Dozy driver gets his Mercedes stuck on Cornish beach in the rising tide after mistaking it for a car park in the dark
His white C-Class coupe quickly got stuck - with only an hour before the tide came in
A DOZY Mercedes driver needed rescuing when he got stuck on a beach - after mistaking it for a car park.
Red-faced Aaron Duckworth, 22, had driven down from his home in Manchester to Newquay, Cornwall, for a friend's wedding.
But he couldn't find a parking spot at the Great Western Hotel and drove down a narrow road, straight onto the darkened beach at around 10pm.
His white C-Class coupe quickly got stuck - with only an hour before the tide came in.
Around 20 locals saw his plight and joined forces to come to his aid.
They helped to dig out his stranded motor just before it was washed away.
Aaron said: "We were down for a wedding and the hotel - the Great Western Hotel - didn't have any parking that I could see.
"There was a narrow road and I thought there was a car park down there.
"I couldn't see any signs and it was dark and the next thing I know I was on a beach called the Great Western.
"I couldn't steer the car or reverse. People I didn't know came and helped us push it out.
"The police arrived too and told me I was the fifteenth person it had happened to that year."
He added: "The tide was coming in and I was a bit panicky. It's lucky there were so many helpful people around."
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