Four Log Cabins

August 19, 1961 a Volvo PV544 was parked by the telephone exchange building at Fiskaregatan (It means Fisher Street), near the South Harbor in Lysekil, Sweden. The driver didn’t notice the parking lot was sloped toward the sea and failed to use a handbrake. The car began to roll slowly downhill, gradually picking up speed. After passing a shipment of herring barrels, it crossed the Södra-Hamngatan (Swedish for Southern Harbor Street) and crashed into the bow of the submarine HSwMS Bävern (The name might mean “Beaver,” but my Swedish is rickety) which was docked at the pier. The driverless Volvo didn’t fall into the sea. Instead, it came to rest with its front bumper on the submarine’s bow and its rear wheels on the pier. The front end of the car was mangled, and the submarine's rail was dented. No one was hurt. And that’s the only collision ever recorded between an automobile and a submarine.