I’ve never seen anything quite like it before, not in real life anyway. We were on a narrow country lane in South Devon at the time; now you may know how difficult it is for traffic to pass on country lanes, and how, usually, one driver has to reverse back and find a passing place wide enough for two cars (sometimes this means reversing for rather a long distance). Well, in this instance the two cars ahead of us were stuck, mainly because each car had at least one car behind them; indeed, we snuck into the nearest passing place and there was another car directly behind us. The road was simply not wide enough for the vehicles to pass. There was only one thing for it – the car in front of us drove up the hedge! And, seeing that it worked, the other driver did exactly the same thing.

Unfortunately, I managed to capture only a shot of the first driver mounting the hedge but you’ll have to take my word for it that, a few seconds later there was an even stranger sight of both cars driving with two wheels apiece actually over a foot, maybe two, up on the hedge. I’ve heard of people being driven “up the pole” but never a hedge.