At least he’ll remember where he parked it! Amazing moment driver plunges 40ft after crashing through car park barrier in Russia but escapes unharmed

• The Russian driver fell 40ft after crashing through the barrier
• His VW spun as it fell, and the front of the car took the full brunt
• Thankfully, the driver survived without any injuries 

A Russian driver had a miraculous escape after his Volkswagen Touareg plunged 40ft from a multi-storey car park.

He was driving the SUV when it smashed through a flimsy barrier and fell to the road below.

A video caught the moment of the dramatic fall.

The VW did a corkscrew spin on the way down, with the front taking the full force of the strike with the ground.

It then righted itself on all four wheels.

The lucky driver – named as Evgeny Shamko, 40 – suffered no more than shock, said reports.

He was driving the SUV when it smashed through a flimsy barrier and fell to the road below

The VW did a corkscrew spin on the way down, with the front taking the full force of the strike with the ground

The lucky driver – named as Evgeny Shamko, 40 – suffered now more than shock, said reports

A check was being done for alcohol in the blood after a bottle was found in the crashed Volkswagen Touareg

A witness said: ‘The ambulance came but did not pick him up.

‘He was not injured.’

He was seen giving a statement to officers in a police car.

A check was being done for alcohol in the blood after a bottle was found in the crashed Volkswagen Touareg, said reports.

It comes after a UK court was told that senior US military officer understood to be the head of space policy for the US joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon caused a car collision that left two teenagers seriously injured under debris. 

Colonel Benjamin Oakes went on trial today at York Magistrates’ Court.

The officer, who hails from Harrogate,  has denied two counts of causing injury by careless driving in North Yorkshire. 

Prosecutors told a district judge how Oakes was driving a white Vauxhall Astra outside Ashville College independent school in Harrogate on February 2 this year.

Louise Berry, prosecuting, said Oakes was edging out of a junction when he clipped a Ford pickup truck, causing that vehicle to swerve and spin.

The truck collided with a wall and two boys were buried under debris, she told the court.

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