@SunshineGirl Only that would risk putting oil, petrol and antifreeze in the water.

Such people drive onto or along beaches only because they are too idle to walk from the nearest car-park, they do not care about the beach and its rightful users, they do not care about the damage to their cars and are too stupid anyway to recognise the hazards; and because whichever authority is supposed to look after the beach does nothing to stop them!

@ArishMell That's true, but I'd still like to see the look on its owner's face 😉

A beach should be a haven for children where they can play freely without fear of being knocked down or getting oil on their skin. Driving on a beach is so selfish and anti-social.

@SunshineGirl Even more so if his antics collected quite an audience taking photos of him and his trapped car! And when he realises the likely costs of being such a selfish idiot.

I agree - the beach is not the place for a car, and any car on the beach has been taken there deliberately.

The only powered vehicles that should be there are as I have seen: tractors towing big rakes to clear litter and washed-up, dead seaweed from the sand.

And even apart from moronic "motorists", it is very sad that so many people show how much they have appreciated the sand and sea (or the countryside, come to that) by leaving their litter all over the place. I wonder if they are as squalid in their homes?

@Thevy29 I think he'd need more than a shovel. And some sense drumming into him.

Unless someone with a suitable vehicle was too naively kind enough to tow his car out, I expect the recovery fee was quite stiff!

@ArishMell Could be worse. I went to the beach today and arrived just as a tractor was towing an Audi v10 supercar out the sand. I don't know exactly what make it was but it sure looked expensive.

@Thevy29 You'd think someone who can afford a car like that, does so by having the nous to develop a high-flying career (over-?) paying him enough!

Evidently not, at least not when it comes to any practical knowledge and common-sense!

@JPWhoo I wouldn't even I had the means.

As he had deliberately driven onto a beach that [i]no-one [/i]should use as a car-park, I'd want him pay for professional recovery, cleaning, and for any later repairs resulting from the highly-abrasive sand or corrosive salt.

Apart from not risking my own car, the wait for the recovery and all the costs might make him realise his own stupidity and selfishness.

I'd offer help to a motorist stuck by for example, sliding off a patch of black ice, or bogged when rain turns a rural show car-park field soft. That is a different matter. Though he might have been more careful in icy conditions, both are accidental. Driving onto a seaside-resort beach, is not.

@Penny Even prettier when idiots don't dump their cars on it!

@SandWitch can get corrosion from salt water that way