Pictured: Red Fiat Panda through roof of building

A woman driver ended up parking her car in the roof of this Italian house after she forgot to put on the handbrake.

Maria Rizzo, 34, stopped to admire the spectacular view from the street above the house in Alassio in northern Italy.

But she was so intent on taking a snap that she forgot to put on the handbrake, and her car rolled away, smashing through a barrier and plunging down the hill onto the house below.

It broke through the roof and landed in the bathroom, with the front end wedged in an iron bath which broke the fall and stopped the Fiat Panda plunging further into the house.

A police spokesman said: “luckily no one was home at the time – so nobody was hurt, but the owner of the property did have a surprise when they arrived home.”