Pictured: Couple's lucky escape as their higher-than-usual hire car crashes into apartment block

By Gerard Couzens for MailOnline
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It was an arrival that would have made James Bond proud.

The location was perfect - a sunny day in a foreign country - and of course, a British driver at the wheel.

The holidaymaker and his wife had been driving in the hills near Marbella, in Spain, drinking in the view. Then came the piece de resistance.

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A British couple holidaying on the Costa Del Sol drove their hire car through a brick wall and off the road, ending up in the stairwell of a block of apartments

As he drove round a bend, the driver, in his sixties, is thought to have pressed the accelerator instead of the brake.

And instead of slowing down, his rented Ford Focus sped through a wall, left the road... and took flight.

It landed about 30ft down the hill, embedded in the outside stairwell of an apartment block.

And, just as 007 would have done, the couple emerged, unscathed, to the astonishment of police and paramedics. 'They fell from such a height I thought at first part of a plane had fallen out of the sky,' said an onlooker.

Car in apartment

Crash landing: An emergency worker surveys the scene

'The fact the couple inside walked away without serious injury defies logical explanation.'

The police were equally bemused. 'It's certainly not the standard type of road traffic accident we get called to,' said a spokesman. But Bond wouldn't be Bond unless he left a trail of destruction behind him.

And in this case too, there were a few casualties.

The front porch of a German couple who live yards away, was destroyed in the crash.

And the hire car has been written off.

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