The flash motor, worth around £82,000, was left dumped on a train track in East London, nowhere near a road, leaving social media users baffled as to how it got there
London: Mercedes found dumped on train track
A suspected drink driver was arrested after an £82,000 Mercedes was found dumped on a train track. The white AMG GLC 43 model was spotted on the Docklands Light Railway in Poplar, East London, over the weekend.
Video from the scene shows the flash motor abandoned on the train tracks while the man filming quips: “You can’t park there mate.” Social media users also were left baffled as to how it got there and compared the incident to a scene from a Fast & Furious movie and the computer game Grand Theft Auto.
One said: “Fast & Furious, the end.” Another added: “Taking GTA to the next level.”
A third exclaimed: “How does that even happen? “There’s literally no road nearby?” A fourth fumed: “Up goes all of our insurance policies by another £500.” Lorraine Pitt quipped: “Can’t park there.” Another added: “Let’s hope he tapped his oyster card.”
Police said they were called to the line near Poplar DLR station at around 6am on Saturday and arrested a man in his 30s.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: “Officers were called to the line near Poplar DLR station at around 6am on Saturday (15 March) following reports of a car stuck on the railway lines.
“Officers attended and a man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle and for obstruction of the railway.”
It comes after cops hunted another bad parker in Cornwall in 2023 after a car was abandoned on train tracks at the bottom of a steep embankment.
Pictures from the scene showed the black vehicle covering more than half of the rail line, with the bonnet wide open. And in 2022, another Merc hit the headlines after it was left abandoned near Tower Bridge for three weeks.
The dust-coated black motor, worth around £36,000, attracted pranksters who drew fallic objects in the dirt. And in 2016 a brand-new £37,000 Mercedes brought a city centre tram network to a halt for five hours after being dumped on tracks.
Transport bosses were forced to halt the service after a driver abandoned a 66 plate Merc in the middle of the rails in Birmingham, at 7am on a Sunday morning.
The Wolverhampton to Grand Central service was terminated at St Paul’s Station while a crew from West Midlands Fire Service, a Technical Rescue team and Midland Metro engineers worked for hours to remove the blockage.
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