US Edition80-year-old drives Mercedes down Rome's Spanish Steps and gets stuck
- An 80-year-old man was stopped by police after driving a compact Mercedes-Benz A Class luxury car partway down Rome's Spanish Steps early Tuesday morning.
- The Spanish Steps, built in the 1720s and named after the nearby Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, have never been intended for vehicle traffic.
- Police stopped the driver at around 04:30, who tested negative on a breathalyser and was cited on the spot for driving down the historic monument.
- Firefighters used a crane to lift the sporty car off the steps, placing wooden planks over the travertine to shield the historic staircase from additional harm during the removal.
- This event follows previous incidents, including a 2022 Maserati driver damaging the steps and a costly 1.5 million euro restoration by Bulgari between 2015 and 2016.
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Lucho Gatica sang that in Plaza de España de Roma the lovers spoke longing for his tender and that the girls were beautiful, with their games, their joyful songs and their smiles. However, very different was the panorama in this mythical enclave of the Italian capital, when an old man has begun to descend by car the famous stairs . On board a Mercedes class A, the 81-year-old man tried to lower the emblematic staircase of the square of Spain at …
A 80-year-old driver was blocked by a car on the famous Trepte Spanielles in Rome, Tuesday morning, announced the municipal police in a communiqué quoted by The Guardian. It is not known how the car got there, since the area was never intended for car traffic.
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