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Smoker takes car for swim, instead of friend

After throwing a cigarette butt out of a car window, a man accidentally drove his Tesla car into a river in Linhai last Tuesday. The man, surnamed Wang, was giving his friend a ride to a nearby reservoir for a swim. On their way to the reservoir, Wang threw his cigarette butt out of the window, but the wind blew it back into the car. When Wang bent over to pick the butt from the floor, he steered the car in the wrong direction and it plunged into a shallow creek beside the road. Wang and his friend escaped unhurt, but the car was damaged.