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Driver rescued after pushed downstream

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william127:
we had to tow a brand new merc up a tiny lane in the snow after it had been stopped driving through standon ford, which is about 3 foot deep and fifty foot long, and going against the current!

muddyjames:
I know the reading area fords and cant remember where this one is and nor can I find it on the wetroads web site or on google maps. hmmm. I dont want to do a bee line straight to it, I am just wondering which one it is!

Range Rover Blues:
If they had as many holes in the floor as I do they'd think twice about any deep wading.  In  LR the problem increases significantly as soon as the bodywork is into the water, it doesn't have to go in far to experience drag on the underside of the body.

Added to which I doub you can get a decent bow-wave in fast flowing water.

I don't like wading because I don't like changing bearings.

DoubleTop:

--- Quote from: muddyjames on April 01, 2010, 17:20:11 ---I know the reading area fords and cant remember where this one is and nor can I find it on the wetroads web site or on google maps. hmmm. I dont want to do a bee line straight to it, I am just wondering which one it is!

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quite interestingly, the google streetview car went throgh the ford :D
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.466893,-0.875228&spn=0,359.998263&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.466889,-0.87506&panoid=rJJfofI4_X5i4R2YyuAcWg&cbp=12,92.97,,0,18.97

DT.

J.D.:
I know this fprd well, having recovered upwards of 40 to 50 vehicles from it in the last 3 years or so. Most are fortunate and end up just conking out, althiugh I have had one off the railway arches over half a mile downstream, totally submerged. I work for the Environment Agency, and also work as a water recovery technician, so I am there quite a few times a month. I actually have one to recover shortly which is a few hundred yards downstream and has been there for a matter of a few months.

I have been through it when it is a 3ft and that is the maximum I will go through it at. There was a woman rescued (while I was in attendance), from a vauxhall Astra estate and the ford was 4ft deep at that time.

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