My imaginary flooded car.

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86JR said:
This is correct. But I was in first gear so doing what 3-5mph... and those points you circled in yellow, the weather was so bad that I simply did not see them.

I relayed everything I did to both the Police (who gave a statement to the insurers) and the insurers. Neither had a problem with my actions.



My only priority was to get to the petrol station where I could use their phone to sort recovery. I am glad I did what I did as trying to organise a recovery truck to tow the car on the blind bend people suggest I should have stopped on itself would have been dangerous! This is a road where many bikers get killed every year, it is a dangerous road!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=A...annel=rcs&gws_rd=cr&ei=JBrHUsqoEpKAhAf3hoCYDw

At the end of the day no one was killed, no one was hurt, my car got written off, I think for someone with no previous experience of floods/danger I did an OK job.
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Then please for the sake of ever other road user re-think through your actions, as from what you have described on here you didn't do an ok job and put other road users at risk. Your vision was that impaired that at 5mph you couldn't even see safe points to pull in that are literally next to you, yet you still believe it was safe to continue driving when you could have ploughed into anything/anyone.

You should have moved your car clear of the 'blind bend' and pulled over in any number of the safe places after the first incident.

I stand by my original comment that it is simply worrying that you have learnt nothing from this, I just hope next time you only kill your car again.
 
In fact, had a similar thing once whilst trying to get to work in the Golf

The road dips down as a railway goes overhead, it floods a lot too. When i got there there was no traffic and you couldnt see how deep it was.... so i waited. a guy went through on a mountain bike (26 inch wheel) and you could only see the top part of the wheel as he went through

On the golf the intake is above the headlight but i thought about saving 10 minutes but killing the car trying to do so, and then having to get a taxi home and replace the engine.
 
86JR said:
But you are saying I should have done so in the first puddle. Which is further towards Torpoint, on a curvy part of a road (no town there) with walls on either side. So where exactly should I have got my car off the road? Should I have driven into the river instead?

I blocked the road in the middle of a village, much safer there than earlier on.

This is where the first, waist height "puddle" was.
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Where is this on the map? I can't seem to get my head around where this is.
 
86JR said:
My only priority was to get to the petrol station where I could use their phone to sort recovery. I am glad I did what I did as trying to organise a recovery truck to tow the car on the blind bend people suggest I should have stopped on itself would have been dangerous! This is a road where many bikers get killed every year, it is a dangerous road!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=A...annel=rcs&gws_rd=cr&ei=JBrHUsqoEpKAhAf3hoCYDw
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86JR said:
I agree, but due to lack of streetlights I didn't know it was deep, as I have said, i drove through there 20min before and there was no water, I just assumed it was like, an inch deep.


TO clarify my headlights were working up until I drove through the "puddle" which was about 30 meters before the one I got stranded in.

...Maybe I should have stopped immediatly after the first water I drove through, when my lights had all gone bang, in the middle of a curve on a dark lane... yeah really clever... until someone drives into the back of me and kills me or themselves!
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I have managed to find the street view image you posted of where the first puddle was so will clarify some of the facts:

- The first puddle was 1.5 miles before where your car eventually stopped based on your photos
- En route you had the following places you could have stopped, but are adamant it would have been unsafe for you to stop on the blind corner and had to continue.











- You chose to plough on regardless in conditions where you claim you couldn't even see the above stopping points
 
86JR said:
Are you completely stupid?

When I say the road was flooded (upto 3 feet at some parts), this doesn't mean surely the road was flooded but all the stopping places on the road have no water on them?

Don't you think common sense tells you that if a dip in a road is flooded then it is likely that the stopping points are going to be flooded too... so your idea of sense is to drive into one of them?

Genius!
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Stopping points are up hill so common sense tells me that the water would be running down to this dip you mention not sat defying mavity in the stopping points.
 
86JR said:
The car was in perfect condition
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You told us it was losing oil?

Buy a new car.
Discover it has major engine problems.
Write it off costing yourself only £300 (or maybe £500?).

Sounds like you found the cheapest way to solve the problem (intentional or not)
 
I don't see how anyone can take anything out of context when the context itself is so blurred and contradictory we can't keep track.
 
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