A driver has been left in deep water after their car got stuck out at sea.

The four-by-four has been left stranded in the water in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey.

Beachgoers are being warned to be careful near the Shingle Bank, as there is a danger that the car could be lifted by the waves and move.

A coastguard team has been called out to the stricken vehicle, and have tied a buoy onto it to keep track of where it moves.

A spokesman for Sheppey Coastguard advised: "Please take care around the Shingle Bank at Minster if you are on the water there is a car by the third buoy.

"This may move with the tide. There is a white buoy attached to the top of it but this may not stay in place".

This is the latest in a number of similar incidents on the Kent coast.

As the tide came in, jet-skiers took to the water and seemed oblivious to the sunken car beneath the waves although the white buoy was still visible.

The car's owner retrieved it later at night as the tide fell.

Witnesses on the beach said they had seen five men in shorts, one using a mobile phone, and one woman standing around the car which was stuck fast in the mud.

It appears it had been used to try to launch a speed boat from a trailer at low tide and had been driven out to the waters' edge some way from the shore. Normally jet-skiers wait until high tide, which was at 4.18pm this afternoon, and launch from a concrete ramp nearby.

The disaster for the car happened on the Island's shingle beach near the White House Indian restaurant.

Just last month, another 4x4 – a Nissan Pathfinder – got stuck in the mud at Folkestone Harbour.

In June, another driver became trapped on Dover beach.

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