They never close these roads off water in the Engine means a rebuild or new this Ford claims hundreds of cars amazing how the public just watch knowing what's going to happen they let them drive in & after ask if they need towing who is charging for this, they all start giving advise why not shout & tell them it's to deep

But you've also got to question the stupidity of the onlookers who don't seem to be discouraging the drivers from attempting to cross, or the local authorities who aren't closing off a road that's clearly impassable to the majority of vehicles.

@@mandydandy3738 They don't shout & tell them it's too deep because there's money to be made via youtube I imagine. I'd be interested to hear from the poster about this but of course everyone's schtum right? Why spoil a possible money spinner. Same with the tow-outs I imagine.

We think we have somehow reached the pinnacle of intelligence when really we are just driven to try stupid things and we learn the hard way, that's how we got where we are, not by being wise, being stupid enough to do stupid things and when it comes off claim we are geniuses when it doesn't we get to laugh and video has made it all better😂😂😂

are you all seriously demonising the onlookers? theres nothing more than stupid people driving through something they shouldnt, not knowing the limitations of their own vehicles. when a lorry goes under a bridge that theyre too tall for, ripping their roof off. do you blame the onlookers, the council or the person driving the vehicle? this ford for the most part is very passable in any average car, after heavy rain its obviously going to be deeper. hence why there are water markers on the bridge so drivers know the depth, before they enter. its only the stupidity of people not thinking, or not knowing how to drive properly.

DON'T..... the hours I've spent watching these vids, car crash/spash? TV.

I absolutely love those situations when someone catches you watching some silly stuff, they tell you it's silly and a waste of time and you know it's true...but then they fall into that rabbit hole and stay in there with you 😁

She did the same with me last week. 👀😂😁😁

@@thepharcyde5239 Yeah sure 🙄

That is Love.

entertainment for all.

Perhaps it would have been reasonable to set up a sign or something warning them that the water level is too high.

He was doing it just to be a nob, I suspect he is local to the area. as fo being impatient, no, he was just being a scummy bully.

They don’t initially realise they have just totalled their vehicle: otherwise they wouldn’t have attempted the crossing. After that it’s just saving face…

Nearly made me wonder if they have some free car program for flooded cars. It’s like they do it for fun!

Omg I know! Everyone standing around with their cell phones out watching them make an idiot of themselves. And there like "nah it's fine. This happens to everyone all the time. Totally normal."

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That's up until they see the repair bill

It's a lesson in it being time to grow up and stop blindly doing what other people tell him to. The only smart move was to stop and start backing up, blue defender be damned.

Exactly! Same thoughts... :/

That blue defender is probaly what got the water into their intake!

Hope he learned his lesson. You gotta stand up for yourself and don't let yourself be bullied or persuaded by other ppls opinions.

if you let other people make decisions for you. you shouldn't have a license.

lol, they make it seem like its the only crossing in 50 miles

I've been wondering! thanks mate!

FFS they act like they’re escaping tyranny by going this way and they have no other option

@@Syazi Same here. I just don't understand how so many cars are getting so badly damaged and yet these drivers are all risking this route. Aren't there huge signs on the road warning these drivers?

Imagine going out for the day and deciding to go and hope people break down flood their cars and cost 100s of pounds! Dregs of society

Tool? what do you mean?

tbf the advice not to stop is spot on once youve commited that far to going through the ford, because the moment you stop forward momentum, the bow wave just rolls back, swamps the air intake & engine and its game over, and you cant reverse if the exhaust is under water already. the moment the car starts to float its open the doors time, they wont seal properly anyway so you have to accept getting wet at that stage and you might just make it through.

@@awavey gg bf

No sympathy what so ever

@@awavey bollix, he easily could of reversed out of there. The guy egging him on was an absolute scumbag

But many did….😂

Many did , it's not winning that counts it's the taking part

Yeah... And...

I can't look away. The people urging people through at the side are a different breed though. But as you can tell from their empty days, they are unlikely to be contributors to society in any ways.

You have to deliberately choose this route (check out Google maps). Those driving through have made a conscious decision to drive through, and it has been raining heavily for the last few days.

@@landmannmike AH.... wondered that since I started watching these "snuf-vids-for-petrolheads".cheers

It's only misfortune if it can't be avoided.

Yeh proper nob head 👌

@iamdedoge He seemed American 😅

Couldn't agree more absolute idiots but it's fun to watch

Bloody pomys

There's a reason shampoo comes with instructions

I can’t believe how many stupid people there are!

if they can get through, they apparently save 10 mins of the travel time

Someone is going to get hurt, either through stupidity or through pissing the wrong person off. This isn't about "fails" anymore, it's about pressuring people to make a bad decision for entertainment.

@@DOSeater That farmer for starters. He was marching about like Herr Kommandant and people were crapping themselves. What they should do is fit a camera to monitor the weather and water levels. When it gets too high, send a marked police car as a visual deterrent. Driving through floodwater in that fashion is actually illegal and the police have busted people here before. Failing to stop for police is a criminal offence by itself, no matter what else you have or haven't done.

​@@DOSeater "pressuring" lmao, as if they aren't capable of thinking for themselves and acting appropriately if anyone else is even stood in the general vicinity.

​@@halfbakedproductions7887 you must not have seen the "police chase" videos from this area then...

@@halfbakedproductions7887 yeah that farmer - to me he looked more like winston churchill marching about

They meant after he went in though. Once he went in, there were no point in stopping

@@vastjonea it's still better to stop and turn back, even when you're halfway. If you realize there's a good chance your vehicle won't make it, it's best to just stop and drive out backwards

Getting the intake a little wet and reversing out is a whole lot better than fully commiting to the forgone conclusion of submerging the engine.

The landy driver would have moved if it were me wanting to reverse

Absolutely, that driver maybe just lost one to two years of his savings because of these trashy humans.

People have already started vandalism there, with the lake gates being opened. Goodness knows what next, some clown dropping a load of home-made caltrops in the water?

Probably best to not start suggesting things as a what next.....

@@MrSonicAdvance I bet google searches for 'Caltrops' peaked today, haha, beyond land mines, those bloody things are quite possibly the most horrific thing that humans have ever invented, especially for their originally intended use.

@@Tekwyzard Truly horrific in their original implementation, but when deployed for taking the smug smirk off blue Land Rover Defender owners, I'm less troubled.

@@MrSonicAdvance Periscopes have been spotted once or twice, my money is on North Korea.

Kia was stuck.

No, it's 90cm deep at that point. Normal vehicles can't pass. At that point most cars even start to float, losing traction with the ground. Even that one Landrover got a bit of white smoke afterwards, despite having a snorkel air inlet. It's stupid to drive through this deep of water.

That sorento had muddies... You can still see it running after he stopped. He only bogged out because the muppet in the landy flooded his engine... really that landy driver should be exchanging insurance details for excessive water damage and driving recklessly...

That model Kia Sorento I believe had a very low wading depth rating at about 250mm. It was never going to make it.

@@electrikoptik I've seen very small city cars go through deep water too fast, yes by luck they made it so the kia still had chance till the defender steeped in. at the very least careless or antisocial driving as most normal people would allow another car to reverse not move closer rev engine (bully) and / or wait for the person to cross before entering water. defender driver just a c**t in my eyes, same with a lot drivers with the land-rover badge it seems, exp in the city

Hello! Can you add a time stamp? Do you mean the Land Rover Defender?

@@A_Man_Who_Says_Hello8538 at 06:00 If I were the driver of the SUV I might be inclined to report the 4wd, which hammered me with the wake, potentially causing me to stall, to the police, after consulting a lawyer... What a complete a453hat

@@DougieL thank you! Also i wouldn't have taken it that far...

LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣 that's everyone who drives through deep water

Agreed.

The intake is probably at the height of the hood line as air is actually designed to flow under there. Water didn't reach that high :)

I guess it's an EV

@@daniel_960_ Definitely not, it's a 1.3 litre petrol. It surprised me too though, I thought it was dead until she reversed out. I don't like Fiat 500s but I have to give it credit for that.

Daniel, it’s a pre face lift these weren’t electric.

@@francois738 then it's indeed very impressive it survived that

Remember, these people -vote- breed.😬

And even worse breed

Well I think the insurance shouldn't pay out, for people's stupidity.

In germany they wouldn´t. Simplyfied there is a principle. "When the water get's to the car, the insurnce pays.. If the car get's to the water the insurance won't pay."

A standard insurance policy does not cover engine damage. Many does not cover flooding. In particular not when the vehicle was deliberately driven into a river. No, most won't get any insurance payout.

@@tomb.6955 But in Germany you apply common sense !! ;)

@@DougieL except when it comes to buying your energy from the US at 4 x the price 🤣freeze mofos!!!

😅

She's probably thinking "my God, this guy's my son's father, what have I done?"

@@cuatrokoop32v Especially after he chose to drove in in the first place ...

@@iankemp1131 yeah, he isn't having relations with her for a few years after that superior show of masculinity...

No matter that he probably frightened the child.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@xeboi11 Excellent comment 😂😂

You win the internet today my friend

Well, we can't see their legs, maybe they are 4 ft long?

@@Webfra14 It's a "quacker"!! 🤔😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣

If he pulls hard enough he can fly straight to the destination.

Well they are there for the show

Yes it was entertainment for them.@@almota7

Whats you been an aussie got to do with things

@@petea2485 well to start with pretty sure we wouldn’t continue to try and cross this 3” ford at warp speed in anything other than a 4WD with a snorkel. Stupid is as stupid does.

Agree mate and I'm English. We are not all dumb, I wouldn’t go anywhere near that with my car haha

I’m sure there’s no twats at all in Australia.

The videos don't show all the drivers who turn around don't forget

I'd be claiming against his insurance if I were the Kia owner, it was still running and only floated off when the defender went past.

@@themightydash1714 looked a lot like deliberate destruction of property to me - blue defender guy was trying to get the water over those cars as much as possible. Absolute bellend.

The vast majority of people do not know how cars work, that's why so many people buy European cars.

@@themightydash1714 Running or not the Kia has taken on so much river water that the interior would have mold and other issues weeks later. Seat foam and other areas that would hold water throughout the interior does not dry quickly. I would bet there are puddles of water in some of the plastic boxes and electronics in the cabin with the amount of water shown coming out once they pulled it back to dry ground, probably wouldn't be much different than a vehicle pulled from a flood zone.

His control was indeed loose.

@@sw6188 He didn't think he could lose?

I think this ford needs CCTV or speed cameras. It's a well known spot for arseholes and the police have been seen there before ticketing people. Better still it needs gated off (similar to snow gates) when the water gets this high, or someone needs to find the cash for a humpback bridge. The detour to avoid this ford entirely is also about 4 miles and takes 15 minutes.

Every child deserves good parents, but not all adults deserve to be parents. The kid's in trouble if his parents are that stupid.

I've been bingeing these all day. Just found the channel. I'm still trying to work out if some people have ever seen large bodies of water before - and that internal combustion engines requires air - water doesn't compress. Also, many modern ECUs are placed under the hood. Not to mention the plethora of electronic sensors that can fail in water. I'm a total loss as to comprehend what exactly the f*** is going on here.

Here in the States you need a license and training course to do just about anything, even hunt. But you can make ten babies with no training….

She looked pretty miffed and actually got on with getting the child to safety and pushing the car whilst the actual driver was still perched on the window sill concentrating as do so many on saving his shoes and socks. Do not blame the passenger who may have no control on what happens in the car. She is the true heroine of this sequence.

The driver of that car appeared to try to pull the car away from hitting the fence by pulling on the roof, while standing on same car. 3:36

It is a very small place so it wouldn't be worth the cost, drivers can avoid this road when it floods with a detour

Not getting wet is usually the motivation by which they enter way too fast.

if you're far from home you're absolutely fucked if you get drenched, have fun being in dirty wet clothes for hours

It blows my mind that people avoid a detour of +0.6 miles or 2 minutes and end up getting totaled

@@nopenope3512 If that is the case, you shouldn't drive in the water in the first place . . .

I wonder if the insurance actually pays the owners when they deliberately destroy their cars like this.

The driver is the one who has full responsibility. He should know it’s too deep to pass through

@@matthewsmith2787 Sure, a person committing suicide is responsible for his or her death but it doesn't take much to say don't do it. In fact it is quite the reverse here. The people are cheering them on knowing full well what the consequences are. Zero empathy or decency.

😂😂😂😂😂

That BMW was in drive, judging by the reaction of the wheels tbh.

I've just got myself a car with electronic brake and it's stupid... I can't understand how it's better than a handbrake

​@@dragonsmonkgood luck putting it in neutral with no power to the electric shifter

That BMW was totaled too, has missed its MOT check since this happened

That's what you call a hint.

Ikr, i would be like ''thanks for the warning'' and detour..

What a bunch of turds

Apparently he has been reported. That's dangerous and inconsiderate driving because it is illegal to drive through floodwaters in that fashion. A lot of people don't realise that.

@@halfbakedproductions7887 yea you need a liosence for that

the kia would not have made it through - remember its a Kia

@@halfbakedproductions7887 With 3 million viewers the guy's plate visible, it'd be a heck of a lot stranger if the driver wasn't reported. They probably got so many reports, they had to make a note not to accept anymore.

Yes even the recovery was a disaster.

There are depth indicators there if you open your eyes.

Not one of the many (four letter) words I would have used.

No the route that bypasses the ford is litterly 3 miles from 1 side of the ford to the other

Red taxi driver: Some w⚓ pushed my car into the ford, honest! 🤣

It was the clients fault. "Drop me by the jetty" he said.

I don't think they're the kind of people who care about that

@@arenalife These are the sort of people who buy ancient shitboxes for 30p, wreck them, and just get another through an iffy private sale. I find people like that really smug actually.

In 11 months when the diff seizes it will be "oi this right piece o rubbish just packed it in feh no reason!"

People who drive the rubbish cannot read!

Everyone is quick to slap a snorkel on but doesn't think to check where their diff breathers are, if you plan on going in high water, make sure they are above it.

Rumors say, adding a snorkel to a car doesn't increase the intelligence of the driver. Bummer!

@@Webfra14 Rumours say , one BMW driver bought a snorkel and fitted it to his face .....😉

@Retired Bore snorkel is a snorkel. You’re talking about a raised air intake, these are two different things.

@@indiebekonn No, a snorkel is just a nickname for a raised air intake, they are the exact same thing. Maybe you're thinking of a cold air induction system?

@@krashd most people associate a snorkel with the fully sealed and safe for water crossings raised air intake while calling it a raised air intake(as Toyota etc does call their intakes from the factory) means it’s there just to keep the air clean, especially with something like an additional cyclone cleaner on top. I mean, technically both can mean the same thing but any knowledgeable person knows the difference.

More than most of the others. She asked and thank god became an honest answer to try to back up. Only an asshole would tell her to get going.

You can avoid it completely with a 10 minute detour. People are just really dumb and/or impatient.

It’s just a short cut round Ollerton no need to go down there after rain

It's a 10 minutes or less drive around

I google mapped it out of curiosity, picking 2 points on either end. It was a 0.2 mile, or 1 minute difference to avoid this

I reckon some of it must be sat navs claiming its a quicker route or something, theres no way that Royal Mail truck is going that way because it has to

He needed some fenders tied on the side of the boat, I mean car.

He's getting sacked today probably

Only if his boss see the video

It's not so bad, another ten year old vauxhall would be about two and a half grand. Cars depreciate faster than bread here.

Vauxhall Insinknia

Yeah me too!

Yeah good advert.

Somehow this thing survives almost everything, even floating. :D

I have a jimny it’s a proper off road machine despite its dainty looks

New ones look like mini G wags