Passers-by leapt into action to help a car which had taken a wrong turn in Lausanne and started to head down a stairwell to the metro.
The Geneva registered mini had only gone down a few steps before it stopped.
Locals managed to lift the car out of its difficulty in a few minutes.
Possible charges for foreign retailers
Foreign online retailers would have to pay into Switzerland's recycling system under a motion the Federal Council now backs
Swiss detained at US immigration
A 23-year-old Swiss woman has been in US immigration detention since Friday, after ICE agents stopped her at Dallas airport on her way to a family gathering
No more paper recycling at SBB stations
Switzerland's railway network is pulling paper recycling compartments out of station bins, after paper collection at its sorting stations crashed by more than 96% between 2015 and 2025
Geneva unemployment rises
Geneva remains Switzerland's unemployment hotspot, with the rate climbing to 5.3% in figures released today by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
Hottest summer ever claims record victims
Switzerland's hottest summer on record killed around 1,257 people between May and August, according to new estimates from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Another medical bill for Crans Montana
Switzerland will foot the roughly CHF 1.5 million medical bill for the twelve Italian victims hospitalised after the Constellation hotel fire in Crans-Montana
