How not to drive through flood water

[Andy84]

This happened local to me in the flash floods yesterday! (Wallington, South London)

* video contains swearing.


View: https://youtu.be/9HnYo8MInTA

 

[T4tomo]

Appropriate use of the old term "bell-end"!

 

[mustang1]

Yeah but did you notice the BMW driver was NOT a nobber in this case?

 

[Cuchilo]

Ha ha and guess what . Its a bloody taxi driver

 

[theclaud]

 

[Levo-Lon]

No suprise.there's always one...

 

[AndyRM]

Excellent!

There was flash flooding in Newcastle a few years ago and two cars got caught in a similar position near where I live. Some kids had invented a game which involved jumping between the roofs of the stricken vehicles and hitting each other with sticks mid-air.

There was also a guy selling inflatable canoes for a fiver just in case you fancied paddling between the combatants.

Walker is a strange place.

 

[swansonj]

If I didn't bore enough of you on the night with my thoughts on the matter, may I offer an opinion that the hill from Beddington through Wallington up to the dip into Coulsdon is my least favourite in the whole of the bits of the Fridays repertoire I have sampled? It's not terribly steep compared to Portnalls / Turners / Ditchling / anything in Wales, but, compared to any of those, it doesn't actually do anything. Portnalls, for example, you start among depressing suburban identikit houses, but as you climb, they thin out, the lights cease, and you arrive at the top feeling you have finally shed urban life, ready to embark on the freedom of the rest of the ride. Ditchling winches you progressively higher above the floor and presents you with a vista of half of southern England. Wallington, by contrast, you start amid those depressing semis, you cycle past a whole lot more of them relieved only by a grammar school, and arrive at the top amid yet more indistinguishable suburbia, with absolutely sod all to show for your efforts. And it goes on for bloody ever.

This happened local to me in the flash floods yesterday! (Wallington, South London)

* video contains swearing.


View: https://youtu.be/9HnYo8MInTA

Who says there isn't a god?

 

[Andrew_P]

Just hope he has got a driving in to a flooded road exclusion clause on his policy. Guess his insurers are looking forward to receiving his claim nice bit of video evidence

 

[Milkfloat]

He wasn't the only pillock.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ystanders-who-saved-him-a3266076.html#gallery

 

[Globalti]

Who's the bigger idiot? The driver who can't gauge the depth or the person using a cellphone camera in portrait to film a landscape shot?

 

[Profpointy]

Who's the bigger idiot? The driver who can't gauge the depth or the person using a cellphone camera in portrait to film a landscape shot?

which is worse, someone whose filming skills lead to a slightly sub-optimum cinema experience, or someone who doesn't realise that driving into head height water might be a bad idea?

 

[Spinney]

Someone that thick should have their driving licence taken away...
(no, I know it won't happen...)

 

[Crackle]

That's so good I've watched it twice.

 

[screenman]

That is one serious blown up engine, water does not compress well.