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English: Abandoned Car in Floodwater This driver had followed a lorry through the water because as he said "The lorry had managed to get through."
At this point on the A37 the road occupies the old course of a stream where it goes under the Dorchester to Yeovil railway. The stream has been diverted into a channel that is higher up than the road. There is constant seepage from the stream onto the road and there are constant duty pumps which pump the water back up into the stream. There are two electric pumps which alternate and if they fail for any reason there is a diesel back up pump. These pumps work well except when the stream bursts its banks , because it then overflows back into the road. This happened on Monday morning and the 4" bore pumps could not cope. The electric pumps failed due to the high level of grit from recent anti-frost road gritting actions, and the diesel pump failed to cut in. The road flooded quite quickly. This motorist then took his chances and got it wrong. The passenger window was open so presumably he had to climb out of the window as the doors would not open due to water pressure. The man in orange is the pump maintenance engineer who had come to repair the pumps and pump the water out so that the car could be removed. Although the pumping was successful and the car was removed later that day, the pumps failed again during the night and the road flooded again, and was still flooded on Thursday 12th February. |
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| Author | Nigel Mykura |
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