Five people rescued from flood waters in Hullbridge

8:07pm Saturday 2nd February 2013 in News

FIVE people had to be rescued from their stranded vehicles after driving into flood water.

Firefighters were called to Watery Lane, in Hullbridge, at about 6.20pm tonight to save the occupants of three stricken vehicles.

The swift water rescue team helped them back to dry land by 7.24pm.

A spokesman for Essex Fire and Rescue said: "Crews continue to stress the dangers of driving into flood water but these, and warning signs at the scene, continued to be ignored at this notorious flood blackspot."

Comments(13)

Thomo100 says...
8:23pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Idiots.
To be fair it is hard to read english these days and ROAD CLOSED is always a tricky one for me.

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DogsMessInLeigh says...
8:32pm Sat 2 Feb 13

why would emergency services be required to help them to dry land..? if it was a raging torrent 6 foot deep i could understand it.... i know watery lane well and i can't for the life of me recall it being like that in my 40 years.maybe they didn't want to get their hush puppies wet.

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xenophobia says...
8:56pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Good story they got running here they obviously didnt absorb the signs though.

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GentleGiant says...
9:26pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Problem is the signs are still displayed even when the road is dry without water - therefore the locals tend to ignore the signs.

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stopmoaning1 says...
9:59pm Sat 2 Feb 13

DogsMessInLeigh wrote:
why would emergency services be required to help them to dry land..? if it was a raging torrent 6 foot deep i could understand it.... i know watery lane well and i can't for the life of me recall it being like that in my 40 years.maybe they didn't want to get their hush puppies wet.
Exactly, what a complete waste of money the emergency services and all of us tax payers can't afford. Why would anybody try driving through it anyway. Send them the bill

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black jack ketchum says...
11:21pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Stupid is as stupid does!

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halojump says...
6:31am Sun 3 Feb 13

i hope their insurance companies rject the claims. I was visiting image flooring the week who are sited just next to the flooded part and the amount of idiots who still tried to pass the flood was amazing. The signs are left in position for a period of time due to water draining off fields for a long time after rain and the water does reach fairly high levels which makes opening car doors difficult. If people do drive down there they will find the water is built up on the tight bends and turning round is difficult on that section.

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Russ13 says...
8:34am Sun 3 Feb 13

Hope the emergency services invoice these muppets for ignoring the signs!

I *needed* to use that road the other night to get from Hullbridge to South Woodham but saw the signs and took the long way round..... wasn't too hard to read the sign saying "Road Closed" and only added 5mins or so to my journey

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saddo99 says...
10:01am Sun 3 Feb 13

Well "Watery Lane " is a bit of a clue isn't it? Another example of twerps who think, " It doesn't apply to me".Just leave them there and that will close the road.

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Cosmo Spring says...
11:05am Sun 3 Feb 13

they should have given it some welly

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pembury53 says...
12:54pm Sun 3 Feb 13

Thomo100 wrote:
Idiots.
To be fair it is hard to read english these days and ROAD CLOSED is always a tricky one for me.
the sign was probably in polish

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Cosmo Spring says...
1:15pm Sun 3 Feb 13

pembury53 wrote:
Thomo100 wrote:
Idiots.
To be fair it is hard to read english these days and ROAD CLOSED is always a tricky one for me.
the sign was probably in polish
black cherry blossom or oxblood?

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Shoebury_Cyclist says...
1:35pm Sun 3 Feb 13

Should have left them there and improved the gene pool.

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