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<\/p>\nAn American tourist who tried to drive a \u00a320,000 Nissan down a tiny footpath but got it stuck for a week has blamed her sat nav.<\/p>\n
The white Nissan Juke was jammed into the narrow entryway after two American visitors to the popular seaside town went the wrong way and said their sat nav told them to go in that direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The car ended up wedged between two stone walls that border a footpath down to Castle Beach, in the Welsh tourist destination of Tenby in Pembrokeshire.<\/p>\n
The two women were trying to reach the landmark of St Catherine’s Island, which is accessible from the beach at low tide, but ended up stuck between the walls, unable to move.<\/p>\n
They drove the car until they couldn’t go any further and then had to escape the vehicle by climbing out of the windows because it was so tight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The white Nissan Juke was jammed into the narrow entryway after two American visitors to the popular seaside town went the wrong way<\/p>\n
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The car ended up wedged between two stone walls that border a footpath down to Castle Beach, in the Welsh tourist destination of Tenby in Pembrokeshire<\/p>\n
The mechanic tasked with extracting the car said it was especially difficult as the walls it was wedged between are protected by their Victorian heritage status, and they were toying with the idea of cutting up the brand-new car.<\/p>\n
This is because many features of Tenby are historically significant, with the medieval town walls being Grade I listed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mechanic Stephen Lowe said the women blamed their sat nav before abandoning the car and catching a train to their hotel.<\/p>\n
Mr Lowe, 56, said: ‘No-one’s ever got a vehicle down there before.<\/p>\n
‘The walls were touching on both sides of the car.\u00a0 They got it wedged and they just put more power on.<\/p>\n
‘There’s normally a bollard on the footpath but that was out at the time, and they went onto the footpath.’<\/p>\n
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Stephen Lowe and his colleagues came up with a plan to free the car near the busy RNLI lifeboat station<\/p>\n
Mr Lowe and his colleagues came up with a plan to free the car near the busy RNLI lifeboat station.<\/p>\n
The work began on Thursday night when they had to scrape mud from the footpath so the car’s wheels could get traction.<\/p>\n
It took more than four-and-a-half-hours to finish to drag the battered and scraped car back up the footpath to be towed away for repairs.<\/p>\n
He said: ‘We had to winch the car backwards all the way using a winch right at the top of the path.’<\/p>\n
But he said the car vehicle nearly met a worse end.<\/p>\n
Mr Lowe said: ‘They were talking about cutting up the car where it was and scrapping it. It’s a brand new car as well.’<\/p>\n