A sudden tidal surge almost swept a parked car on a West Country beach out to sea earlier this week. The car, a black Audi, had been parked on the sands at Polzeath, on the coast of North Cornwall on Thursday evening, (November 24) and before long found itself surrounded by water.
A local beach artist, Bill Bartlett, managed to shoot some footage of the car, in which we see the vehicle being thrown about by a tempestuous sea: it spins around and is visibly tossed to and fro. Most onlookers had assumed that was the end of the car's life, but once the surge had calmed down it was seen being driven off, seemingly without any issues, reported sister publication Cornwall Live.
Mr Bartlett, from New Polzeath, near Wadebridge, and who also runs North Cornwall Coast Path Walks, said the people in the car were "very lucky", because ten minutes later another even bigger surge came in which he said would really have taken their car out to sea or caused injuries and damage.
