A BMW fell into the River Thames and someone filmed it floating away
The dark grey BMW was spotted floating in the river near Putney Embankment in Southwest London, according to the Evening Standard.
Witnesses told the Standard that the car had been parked on a slipway before sliding into the river.
Ted Stones, an 18-year-old student based in London, told Business Insider he saw the sinking car at around 2 p.m., captured the incident on film and uploaded a video to YouTube.
"There was [sic] about 4 or 5 people when I got there and a bigger crowd had gathered when I was leaving," Stones told Business Insider over email. "I left before it fully sunk."
"The general commotion was that it wasn't the first time this happens and how drivers regularly get caught out by the high tide but it's never bad enough to sweep an entire car away," he said.
Stones said the police appeared as the car was floating. "They genuinely had no idea what to do. They were constantly radio-ing it in," he said. "The PLA [Port of London Authority] turned up literally just as it fully sunk."
Watch the doomed car float away in Stones' video below.
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