Last week it was announced that a Massachusetts company would be bringing a flying car to market in 2010, but a German man who drove his car into a church roof obviously couldn’t wait that long.

At about 11pm, the 23-year-old driver in eastern Germany, about 2 hours south of Berlin, missed a turn while driving his Skoda Octavia and hit an embankment, sending the car 115 feet in the air and landing on the Lutheran church’s roof about 23 feet in the air.

Police said the embankment acted as a ski jump, sending the driver flying almost 40 yards through the air.

“We’ve never ever had a case of a car landing in a church before,” said Frank Fischer, a spokesman for Chemnitz police in the state of Saxony.

Police estimated the damage to the car totaled about 10,000 euros ($13,000) but an estimate for the damage to the church had yet to be determined.

A crane needed to be brought in to remove both the car and the driver from the roof. The driver was taken to the hospital for injuries which police said were not life threatening.

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