Holy Island Causeway Driving Disasters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2021
- Planning a visit to Holy Island over the summer? Don’t get caught out by the tide like these drivers!
The popular Northumberland tourist destination is a notorious blackspot for emergency rescues, as motorists become stranded on the causeway by rising waters, often having to be rescued by the Coastguard and RNLI.
Be sure to plan your visit around the safe crossing times, which are displayed on both sides of the causeway and around the Island, as well as on the Northumberland County Council Website.
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I was there on the 24th of October it is so easy to check the tide times and it is also on a light board near the causeway,it is unbelievable that people ignore this.
Its not fresh water, so even when you have made it across chances are the bottom of your car is going to rot out in six months, never buy a used car from around there.
Just checked a cars reg who was driving through there, 'Front subframe corroded'
🤣🤣
As if those drivers are locals.
I'm surprised there aren't gates that close or lower on either side to prevent you from driving
1. Freedom of choice pertains.
1a. So do rising (tide) insurance premiums.
2. The Rescue services love a chance to get their toys out and practice.
3. Onlookers love a chance to haw-haw, say “I told you so” and fly camera drones for YT.
4. As far as I know, no-one has ever died, even if vehicles have.
5. The wait, if you get it wrong, is not a full 6 hours. The peak of high tide, covered causeway, soon passes and recedes to driving safety after an hour in Neaps tides, and 2 hours on Spring tides.
They figured people had a lil more common sense and used their brains once in a while
@@danielclark7397 You'd be surprised, especially nowadays. People living entitled now.
@@danielclark7397 Yes I'm surprised at how many stupid people are behind steering wheels.
Freedom is more important. How else are people going to learn that actions have consequences. It’s not the job of the state to protect people from their own idiocy. That’s the road to hell.
They give you all the information and warnings you need, and yet still people ignore it.
And we supposedly evolved from primates to be smarter than them???
We have a saying in Australia "If it's flooded, forget it!"
I went once but didn’t manage to cross because the tide was coming in. Sunderland point near Morecambe is another tidal road. Ive been there a few times as its not too far from me and the danger there is the tide comes in at various inlets, you can easily get cut off half a mile behind without realising. That nearly happened once, I was in a little Suzuki Celerio, went with my girlfriend and were taking photos etc, saw the water coming in and turned round to head back and was faced with a lot of water in front and the road covered. I had no idea how deep it was but had to carry on, luckily not up to my bonnet and got through. Next time I went in a Subaru Outback. Drove down the road while the tide was still partially in. You have marker posts at either side of the road to show approximately where the road is but before you get to the beach at the far end, the posts and the road run out and you are basically faced with the open sea in front ! Bit nerve racking, I had no idea what was under the water. Good choice of car for that 👍
When stupid and water meet! These people are the same people that will continue through railway crossings when the lights flash or tear through traffic lights on amber.
£1,000 fine and six points should start persuading these morons to read the signs.
That salt water will really help shorten the life of those cars and trucks
I like the drone footage.
Need one where the car stops, the driver gets out and opens the bonnet in a foot of water and scratches his head!
Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t get it, why not just build the road structure like 15 feet higher to counteract the fluctuating tide problems?
I’m even more confused how the road was built/up-kept in the first place if the tide rises twice a day every day like that.
Last clip encourages us to give it a try, looks fun!
Yeah, give it a go bud.... But can we all laugh at you when you get cut off by the tide in your Audi?
Ill cheer for u
knob !!!!
NIce Whats the range on the drone? And does it store the footage on board or stream it back for recording?
What amazing view. And do magnificent scenery ❤
First and only time ive seen a seal was on this strip of road, will never forger it
That would be an unusual and upsetting roadkill
Also worth mentioning how horrifically bad seawater is for cars. Even if you make it across through the water, you're going to have to intensely clean anything and everything that made contact with the water to prevent rust and corrosion - often including the axles and transmission. So even if you make it across like those two SUVs in the video, you'll have a massive headache waiting for you upon arriving home.
feel abit ripped off. only two clips
I have nightmares about driving on roads like this, then driving off the road into the water. No thanks😅
It’s completely fine and well out of the water. If you cross when it’s safe to cross. I wish TH-cam allowed you to post pictures and replies because I have driven across the causeway when the tide is completely out and you wouldn’t know that the land becomes completely submerged if it wasn’t for all of the signs, telling you it does.
Honestly if you cross during the safe times it is perfectly safe and if you did run off the road, you would just run onto sand and dunes asfar as the eye can see.
Time and tide wait for no-one 😆
I have a coffee cup that says that 😊
"Time and Tide" by Alan Price intensifies. :3
why dont the council install a boom gate that is automated based on safe times? Save idiots from themselves and alleviate liability for the council
People continue to take risks with their loves . .
They need signs that show the day's tide times beside the actual time.
In most parts of the world, we build causeways *above* the water.
you feel entitled to speak for 'most parts of the world'?
@@JakobusVdL
I do.
@@dalesmth1 you'd better get yourself better informed in that case
@@JakobusVdL
I’m a Civil Engineer.
Your move.
@@dalesmth1 i'm a civil engineer too
Its almost like a convention for 🔔end drivers!
Need to fine the idiots
its time for a new higher bridge but hey money is tight
Beauties come to mind
Don't do this an an EV unless you want to see a chemical reaction fire caused by lithium reacting to salt water lol!
I have amphibia so no problems for me
THINK! Ignorance Kills!
Even though they made it they ruined their vehicles. Turned them into rust buckets.
Drivers are like dog owners, it will never happen to them
When an Uber becomes an Unter.
The UK produces a serious amount of 🤡 then gives them a driving licence
🙄
And they don't want to built a bridge???
Who's going to pay for a bridge and it's maintenance?
Crossing the causeway at the right time is a great thrill, especially for the kids, for whom the excitement knows no bounds!
No need. The tide times are posted everywhere and online. It’s quite hard to get stuck!
It’ll just be a bridge that costs millions of pounds from nowhere to nowhere
Only 160 people live there, the current solution works fine.
Why don't they just raise the road a little bit?
A little bit? It’s the sea not a river
Several metres...
Like France