GPS fail: Woman gets car stuck on Shelly Beach boat ramp while trying to get to Manly

A WOMAN believed to be following her GPS has definitely ended up at the wrong location, after getting her car stuck on a boat ramp on Sydney’s northern beaches this morning.

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A WOMAN believed to be following her GPS has definitely ended up at the wrong location, after getting her car stuck on a northern beaches boat ramp.

The woman, from Lindfield, managed to get her Volkswagen Beetle stuck on the Shelly Beach Boat Ramp this morning.

A car ends up off the boat ramp at Shelly Beach. Picture: Tim Ettle.

She was unavailable for comment, but Karl Henze from Manly Towing said she got stuck early this morning.

“The lady was following the GPS she came down to Shelly Beach boat ramp and it was night time, about 3am, and she thought that way was they way to go to Manly,” he said.

“It turns out it was a boat ramp that ran about 20 metres.

“She realised it was wrong when her headlights shone down on the water and she thought she would make a U-turn.”

The green P-plater returned home to Lindfield after getting her car stuck, then returned to have it towed about 8am.

She left a note on the car which read: “Hello, the driver had an accident and lost control of the car. The driver will return to deal with the situation.”

The car had to be towed from the boat ramp. Picture: Robbie Patterson.

There was also a phone number, date and time on the letter.

Mr Henze said the woman was rattled when he spoke with her.

“I was speaking to her before, she locked her car up, went home, had a bit of a rest and she was still quite shaken up,” he said.

The note left on the car at Shelly Beach boat ramp. Picture: Gabriela Giles

The car tetters on the edge. Picture: Gabriela Giles

Tim Ettle was walking his dog about 6am when he noticed the “nice park”.

“By around 6.30am there were heaps of people. It will probably be the most photographed car in Manly,” he said.

“There is normally bollards by the cafe, I don’t know how they have managed to get there. You can see all the scratches on the boat ramp, it was a major fail.”

Manly Vale’s Gabriela Giles also saw the puzzling sight while walking along Shelly Beach about 6.30am.

She was at a loss to understand how the car ended up at the boat ramp.

“You can’t go down there at any great speed,” she said.

“You have to dodge the kiosk (The Boathouse Shelly Beach) and there are tables, so you have to go down there relatively slowly.

“I don’t know what you have to be doing to miss that boat ramp.

“You could see the wheels pointing towards the ramp (in the photos) desperately trying to get back up.”

A car has to be removed from the beach at Dee Why, it is being towed away by a tractor.

Car beached at Dee Why. Pic credit: Susannah Williams

It comes just 10 days after a sunset viewing went horribly wrong for 25-year-old William He, who drove his friends Mercedes-Benz on to Dee Why Beach.

He was left “frustrated” and “embarrassed” after driving along the beach to drop supplies off before getting the $67,000 GLA 4MATIC Mercedes stuck.

Young female driver is caught by surprise when a Huntsman Spider dropped in while driving. Picture: Stuart Cooper.

And it appears that cars in, or near, the water has become a common theme near the northern beaches waterways.

Earlier this month at Bayview boat ramp in Rowland Reserve, a runaway huntsman caused a young woman to panic, leap out of her car only to watch it sweep into the ocean.