You are not alleged to drive on the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy. Even in the event you’ve by no means seen them, the identify makes it fairly apparent that they are steps and subsequently not for vehicles. Then once more, you have nearly undoubtedly seen them since they had been featured prominently in 2023’s “Quick X.” Alternatively, in the event you’re an excessive amount of of a snob to benefit from the “Quick & Livid” franchise, they had been additionally utilized in “Mission: Unimaginable – Useless Reckoning Half One.” Anyway, presumably in an try to recreate a kind of scenes, an aged man drove his decade-old Mercedes-Benz A-Class hatchback onto the Spanish Steps on Tuesday and acquired himself caught, ABC Information experiences.
Upon studying that, I am positive you additionally assumed the person in query was an American vacationer, however whereas extra info might come out and alter issues, no less than for now, I have not been capable of finding a supply that features the person’s nationality, so odds are, he is Italian. In spite of everything, it’s important to assume European newspapers would’ve been throughout an American doing one thing silly like that. As a substitute, all we actually know is that he is 80 years previous and did not check optimistic for alcohol on his breath.
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Native authorities cited the person once they arrived however haven’t launched his identify or confirmed whether or not he personally owned the automobile or not. Additionally they have but to make clear whether or not or not he was utilizing GPS navigation, which may probably assist clarify how he acquired rotated. Contemplating he is reportedly 80, it would not be stunning if we finally came upon there have been age-related points at play, and he actually should not have been driving anymore, however no less than for now, there isn’t any proof to assist that idea.
Arguably, nobody ought to drive in Rome as a result of there’s an excessive amount of site visitors.
Authorities had been in a position to take away the automobile, however to keep away from damaging the Steps, which had been first constructed again within the 1720s, they ended up bringing in a crane to carry it to security. ABC Information additionally experiences that native authorities didn’t reply to a request for extra info, so it is attainable we might by no means know extra about what occurred.
This additionally is not the primary time somebody has pushed a automobile down Rome’s Spanish Steps and even the primary incident in current reminiscence. Again in 2022, a 37-year-old Saudi man drove his rented Maserati down the steps and was later arrested on the airport in Milan, CNN experiences. Following his arrest, he was charged with aggravated injury to cultural heritage and monuments, as his little escapade broke the sixteenth and twenty ninth steps on the appropriate facet of the monument.
The automobile was safely eliminated by the hearth brigade pic.twitter.com/IV7ZMuSByd
– issues Italian (@MambiITECALIAN__) June 17, 2025
