Police in Rome said the driver in his 80s was at a loss to explain how he had wound up driving down the famed Spanish Steps.

An 80-year-old man on his way to work mistakenly drove his Mercedes-Benz sedan down Rome's famous Spanish Steps.

An Italian man on his way to work in Rome mistakenly took a wrong turn and tried to drive down the world-famous Spanish Steps ...

An 81-year-old man drove his car down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome before getting stuck on the way down. One of Italy's ...

Before dawn on Tuesday, an 80-year-old Italian man behind the wheel of a Mercedes A-Class tried to navigate the sedan down ...

The 81-year-old claimed to have taken a wrong turn onto one of Rome's greatest, and most protected, monuments.

Footage provided by police shows the 80-year-old man inching down the famed 135-step staircase before getting stuck halfway down. The car was later hoisted out by crane.

A driver in Italy has found his car stuck on Rome's famous Spanish Steps. The 81-year-old driver's Mercedes hatchback bounced ...

A pensioner accidentally got stuck, driving down Rome's famous Spanish Steps, and ended up having to be rescued by police, firefighters and a crane.

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A man accidentally drove his car down the Spanish Steps in Rome, a historical monument that is highly vulnerable to damage by ...

An 80-year-old man has told police he was “wrong” to drive down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps, after firefighters had to recover ...