I have owned my 560SEC for over 3 years now, I have lovingly kept it and tried to restore it back to its original factory spec by sending it to our local MB Dealer.

After over £10000 of work done on suspension and a reconditioned engine, the car was running really well and I felt I was slowly but surely getting on top of the restoration and was planning to send it to our local body shop to get it resprayed.

I was returning home from work, sitting at a roundabout waiting for the road to become clear and all of a sudden the car left the roundabout (so an eye-witness says) and plunged through a set of trees over the edge of a car park then through another set of trees at full throttle! It came to rest, axle deep in mud still at full throttle and on fire! I was knocked unconscious and was rescued by the fireman who kindly cut me out. Luckily, this incident happened on the grounds of our local police station, the 1st policeman on the scene was able to switch the engine off, while it was at full throttle and still in "drive."

As stated previously, I was knocked unconscious and have amnesia from about half a mile before the crash until I woke up on the stretcher, not understanding why I was there and what happened to my beautiful Mercedes!

Can anyone shed some light on this incident? Are w126s known to become erratic, any advice would be welcomed.

Cheers

Richard

PS Please find a pic of the car as it lies in the recovery yard