French cat strays into car engine for three-day road trip

A stray kitten called Lucky survived a three-day journey from France to England inside a car engine.

Lucky crawled into the car before Alan and Audrey Plumpton travelled home from their holiday cottage in Brittany.



The kitten was trapped in the engine compartment of the car for three days as Mr and Mrs Plumpton made a 280-mile (450km) car journey home from their cottage in La Briere national park.

The couple only discovered the six-week-old French cat when they heard mewing from under their car bonnet after arriving home in Amersham, Bucks.

Lucky will be reunited with the couple after spending six months in quarantine with the RSPCA.