Aug 5, 2012, 7:15am ET

Google Street View car lands in ravine [Video]

A Google Street View car has ended up inadvertently getting a close-up shot of a ravine in northern India.

A Google Street View car has had the tables turned on it finding itself the subject of photographs and even a video, reports Carscoop.



The Google Street view Opel Astra has ended up in a ravine in the Leh district in Northern India - although how it ended up there remains unknown at this time. A number of tourists in the area got wind of the accident and shot a video of the aftermath. With the car quite severely damaged, one of them thought there would be no harm in taking some pot shots at the wreck armed with some rocks from the crash site.



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Although the car looks like it has taken something of a beating, it seems that the passenger compartment remains intact suggesting that the driver or team may have managed to get out of the wreck relatively unscathed. Assuming the car's cameras were operating at the time of the accident, it is likely that the crash investigation team will have little trouble determining what went wrong at the time of the crash.



Google's Street View service has made getting to locations a lot easier for people unfamiliar with a location by taking detailed, 360 degree panoramas of entire journeys. Google has recently expanded the service to give users Street Views from indoors as well, with its latest project taking users on a tour of the Kennedy Space Centre. However, it has also landed Google in hot water over privacy concerns after it was found to be skimming private Wi-Fi data while its cars have been doing the rounds across the globe.