A CAR got stuck on a Suffolk railway line, sparking train delays after he misunderstood the directions from his satellite navigation system.The driver, a 26 year-old foreign student was delivering a takeaway when he turned onto the tracks instead of a small road and the wheels of his car jammed into a cattle grid.

A CAR got stuck on a Suffolk railway line, sparking train delays after he misunderstood the directions from his satellite navigation system.

The driver, a 26 year-old foreign student was delivering a takeaway when he turned onto the tracks instead of a small road and the wheels of his car jammed into a cattle grid.

The terrified student and his passenger failed in their frantic bid to push the car, a Daewoo Matiz off the tracks at Oulton Broad.

Trains were delayed for more than an hour before a recovery vehicle towed the car away at 8.40pm last night.

A spokesman for British Transport Police said: “He drove onto a level crossing when his sat nav told him to turn right. The car became embedded in a cattle grid and he caused delays of up to an hour."

A Network Rail spokesperson said: “This was a lucky escape. If a train hits a car, there's only one winner. Sat nav is generally really useful, but drivers need to make sure that they aren't blindly following it and keep a sensible eye on the road to make sure things like this don't happen.

“In this instance the driver was not only putting himself at risk, but others travelling and working on the railway.'”