A car was totaled and police said two Massachusetts college students could face charges after they were allegedly doing donuts on the beach got stuck in the rising tide.

It happened Wednesday around 4 a.m. at Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea.

Manchester-by-the-Sea Police Lt. Mark McCoy said two Gordon College students were in a sedan doing donuts in the middle of the beach, and then got too close to the water and got stuck.

Fire Chief Jake McNeilly said the students were stuck in the water about 50 feet from shore as the tide was starting to come in. The students were able to get out of the car themselves into the waist-deep water. When firefighters arrived, the 19-year-olds were trying to push the car back onto the beach, but were unsuccessful.

Tire tracks in the sand near where

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