Each week, we'll be bringing you the strangest motoring news from around the world.

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Got any stories, pictures or videos you think we should feature in the Weird World of Wheels? Send them to us at editorial@autotrader.co.uk.

This week:

Luck bypass

Be careful what you wish for – you might just get it.

Councillor Jim Burley from Pegswood, Northumberland campaigned for 30 years to have a £9million bypass built to make his village safer.

He was also the first person to have an accident on it.

The 70-year-old was in collision with a van which was overtaking oncoming traffic.

Councillor Burley said: "I honestly thought we were going to be killed. My van was spun around and I finished up facing the direction I'd come from. My wife took the brunt of it."

Gone in 600 seconds

There's a long waiting list for Focus STs.

When you get one, be careful with it. Don’t get it trashed it in ten minutes.

Like Roger Robinson did.

The Basingstoke resident's ST careered down an embankment having been hit in the slow lane of the M3 - just minutes after he'd taken delivery of the car.

Mr Robinson, who will have to get to the back of the queue for a new ST, said: "I'm totally gutted. But it could have been worse - I could have been hurt."

AA-RRRRRGH!

The Automobile Association. The fourth emergency service.

But they're not supposed to cause the emergencies.

An AA driver left his van on a steep hill in Liversedge, West Yorkshire - but forgot to put the handbrake on.

As the scatter-brained patrolman looked on, the van rolled down the hill into Jack and Susan Brooke's Ford Orion. And their front wall. And their garage.

Mr Brooke said: "It was a brilliant car. I don’t know what we'll do without it."

The AA have agreed to pay for the damage.

Weird Pic of the Week: The needle and the damage done

No matter how much you like modded J-Body Cavaliers, there's a line.

Video: Car and gate

Rolling your car on a tricky bend I can understand. But to do it on a gate? That's a real skill.

Click the play button below to watch the video.

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Answer to last week's Weird Pic of the Week question:

Last week we showed you this picture of BMW’s F1 racer Robert Kubica, and asked you what was wrong with the image.

The answer is the colours on the BMW badge are the wrong way round.

Thanks to everyone who emailed in.