Mercedes car beached in sand at Sydney’s Dee Why Beach

A MERCEDES car has run aground in the sand at a popular Sydney beach this morning after a man drove his friend’s car on to the sand to get a better view of the sunrise.

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THIS “is the first time, and it will be the last time” that William He drives a car onto the beach.

The 25-year-old Hornsby man was left “embarrassed” and “frustrated” after he drove a Mercedes hatch belonging to a friend on to Dee Why Beach.

He said he and some friends were planning to watch the sunrise, and he was dropping off food when the $67,000 GLA 250 4MATIC Mercedes got stuck.

But it will likely be an expensive trip with the costs of earth moving machines alone setting him back $500.

Car beached at Dee Why. Picture: Susannah Williams

A digger was brought in to help get the car off the beach.

It is unclear whether police, or Northern Beaches Council have fined the man.

The car was stuck at the southern end of the beach from 3am until midday.

“I wasn’t looking carefully enough and didn’t know it was prohibited to drive on to the beach. So I just got a lesson from the cops this morning,” Mr He said.

“The police were nice, they are not sure (if he will be fined), they need to go through the report and see how it goes … the council was pretty nice, they said ‘this is just a lesson for you’, and I won’t ever be driving through the beach again.”

Car beached at Dee Why. Picture: Susannah Williams.

TV media film the car being helped back to solid ground.

Onlooker Susannah Williams described what she saw as: “Something you don’t see every day.”

And its not the first time a car has been driven onto the sands of Dee Why beach and gotten stuck.

Rex Carlson, whose company Allambie Earthworks removed the car said it was a reasonably regular occurrence.

“This has happened twice before, this would be the third one, they think it is Stockton beach and go for a four-wheel-drive in a two-wheel car,” he said.

Steep learning curve ... William He won’t be driving on to the beach for a better view anytime soon.

The bizarre sight comes just days after a car ended up in the water off Bayview boat ramp earlier this month.

The driver, 18, jumped out of her car after a large huntsman spider crawled on to her lap.

She could do nothing but watch as her car rolled into the water.

Witnesses said she leapt out of the car “and started doing a spider dance” as her car edged towards the water.

A young driver jumped out of her car after a large huntsman crawled on to her lap. Picture: Stuart Cooper.

Stuart Cooper, who was standing 50m away, said the woman appeared to be in shock.

“Her mum arrived about 15 minutes later and was freaking out because she thought her daughter was in the car,” the Avalon local said.

“She was relieved when she saw her daughter sitting on the side of the boat ramp in tears. She went up and gave her a huge hug.