Not recommanded to park your car here

The sea is looking very calm, so the car may still be at the same spot at the next low tide.

It may have been the wife that parked there, at the next low tide she can call her husband to tell him that their car won't start due to water in the carburettor.

Peter.

Not sure if this video link will work for anybody not on FB.

www.facebook.com/kevin.ward.756412/videos/493474127654889/

Hmmm...and u don't know it was a woman either...I bet it were a man...

I didn't say that it was a woman, I wrote :"It may have been the wife", as that would fit better (in general) with the story.

There are of course some woman that are more car-technically able than their husbands, but I can't see (although I'm not blind) a man calling his wife to say that the car won't start because of water in the carburettor, and even less so with a fuel injected engine

I didn't read the newspaper article, so I didn't know that they were talking there about "he".

For the rest, I have nothing against female car drivers at all.

Peter.

Not if they try to start it with water in the intake side. It's a sure fire way to wreck a diesel.

Many a diesel has been wrecked because the air intake is often very low on modern cars, relatively low level flood water will often bring a diesel to a grinding and very expensive halt.

The worst one ued to the original Renault Espace.

People used to think they were OK  because they were in a 'big' vehicle so used to try to drive through relatively shallow water only to discover the air intake was ridiculously low and almost a perfect design to scoop up copious amounts of water....................thud!