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Nowhere is off-limits for brazen drivers when they need to park up – including the London DLR tracks.
Docklands Light Railway trains came to a halt in Poplar, east London, after a driver abandoned their £82,000 luxury car on the tracks.
It led to a bizarre face-off between a DLR train and the car that looked like something out of Fast & Furious.
The rogue vehicle blocked the line near Canary Wharf on Saturday, NeedToKnow first reported.
Trains managed to stop safely, it is understood.
The driver had mysteriously mounted the white Mercedes- Benz AMG GLC 43 on the tracks – although the nearest roads such as the A1261 Aspen Way are walled off.
A man in his 30s was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and blocking the railway.
When the video of the car emerged, people said it looked like a clip from the Grand Theft Auto games.
‘Will the traffic warden give a ticket,’ one person quipped on social media, while another asked the car got there as ‘most of the DLR is high rise.’
The discovery was made near the DLR Poplar depot, which suggests the driver might have snuck in through the area.
Along with causing travel chaos, the driver risked being electrocuted or severely burned as the DRL tracks carry a high-voltage current, making trespassing ‘extremely dangerous,’ TfL has warned.
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A British Transport Police spokesperson told Metro: ‘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.’
Ben Grellier, TfL’s head of operations for the DLR, told Metro: ‘A car drove onto some train sidings at the DLR’s Poplar Depot early on Saturday morning.
‘Thankfully, there were no injuries but, for safety reasons, we had to temporarily isolate the power at the depot.
‘This impacted our ability to bring a small number of trains into service, but disruption was minimal as we were able to introduce additional trains from our second depot at Beckton. Services resumed as normal on the Sunday morning.’
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