Bentley Driven Into The Sea - Driver Rescued

[bad company]

This guy was lucky there were people around and able to rescue him. Maybe those electric windows aren’t such a great idea after all .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ez2p32wgpo?a...

[Roger Irrelevant]

Yep, having read this I will never buy another car with electric windows, but I'll make sure it has a sunroof. And drive with my scuba gear on.

[bangerhoarder]

BBC said:

he was taken by surprise when it lurched forward over the curb and into a bench, thinking: "Well this is going to be an expensive bill."

Mr Hill said moments later the car made a loud bang and continued over the edge into the water.

These faulty modern cars are a deathtrap! It obviously did that completely by itself!

Please Mr Hill, hand your driving licence over.

Edited by bangerhoarder on Thursday 2nd October 10:22

[bad company]

Roger Irrelevant said:

Yep, having read this I will never buy another car with electric windows, but I'll make sure it has a sunroof. And drive with my scuba gear on.

A good friend’s wife keeps a hammer in her car to break windows and shears to cut the seat belts in case she drives into water.

[John145]

The NVH team should be proud, that 2.5T car was floating for a long time!

[mac96]

Watching the video, I was surprised by how little there seems to be to prevent vehicles going in there.

And, is the BBC turning into the Daily Mail? Who wants to know what he last paid to have the car cleaned?

[Geertsen]

I think the car decided to take its own life after seeing itself in the reflection of a shop window. That has to be the worst colour Bentley ever!

[bad company]

Geertsen said:

I think the car decided to take its own life after seeing itself in the reflection of a shop window. That has to be the worst colour Bentley ever!

I rather like the colour. Do you think it s been cleaned before the photos were taken? It doesn t look like its been at the bottom of the sea.

Edited by bad company on Thursday 2nd October 10:27

[abzmike]

It could happen to anybody....

However, I caught this in the BBC report 'The port authority said it used a hydrographic survey vessel to find the car on the seabed before divers and a crane were used to pull it back up to the surface.'... Quite how hard would that thing be to find that it needed a hydrographic survey vessel to locate?

[dhutch]

bad company said:

A good friend s wife keeps a hammer in her car to break windows and shears to cut the seat belts in case she drives into water.

My granddad once bought one for all his grandchildren as a Christmas gift.

Not sure where mine is, maybe I should ensure its in the car!

[Jader1973]

The latest Euro NCAP requirements are:
3 points if electric windows continue to operate for up to 2 minutes after a car enters water. It s tested by either dropping a car in to water, or proving that the entire system works when submerged.
Or
1 point if there is a tool in the car that can be used to break windows if a car is submerged.

Sticking a tool someplace is an easy point so I expect it will become pretty common soon.

[POIDH]

John145 said:

The NVH team should be proud, that 2.5T car was floating for a long time!

Indeed, that was way more watertight than I expected!

[Bill]

abzmike said:

It could happen to anybody....

However, I caught this in the BBC report 'The port authority said it used a hydrographic survey vessel to find the car on the seabed before divers and a crane were used to pull it back up to the surface.'... Quite how hard would that thing be to find that it needed a hydrographic survey vessel to locate?

The tide can flow at up to 4 knots there and visibility means you'll be searching by touch...

[dhutch]

Bill said:

abzmike said:

It could happen to anybody....

However, I caught this in the BBC report 'The port authority said it used a hydrographic survey vessel to find the car on the seabed before divers and a crane were used to pull it back up to the surface.'... Quite how hard would that thing be to find that it needed a hydrographic survey vessel to locate?

The tide can flow at up to 4 knots there and visibility means you'll be searching by touch...

I also expect they had one, sitting idle, at which point why not us it.

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bad company said:

I rather like the colour. Do you think it s been cleaned before the photos were taken? It doesn t look like its been at the bottom of the sea.

Edited by bad company on Thursday 2nd October 10:27

Obviously whipped out the microfibre before the pictures were taken.

[Purosangue]

bangerhoarder said:

BBC said:

he was taken by surprise when it lurched forward over the curb and into a bench, thinking: "Well this is going to be an expensive bill."

Mr Hill said moments later the car made a loud bang and continued over the edge into the water.

These faulty modern cars are a deathtrap! It obviously did that completely by itself!

Please Mr Hill, hand your driving licence over.

Edited by bangerhoarder on Thursday 2nd October 10:22

yes he should think very carefully about driving
old boy in a heavy 2 ton Bentley ..has a "moment" shoots forward instead of reverse and demolishes a bench sat in concrete and drives over into Poole Harbour .



heard of drivers going in off the slipway , but never from the car park ..............perhaps he should have parked in the Haven it has a concrete wall

[J4CKO]

Feel for him, obviously got the car of his dreams and then launches it into the sea, must be mortified and gutted.

Anyone can get things wrong but thats quite special, I dont like to criticise, "there but for the grace of god" etc, and all the comments about his age (not that old), his car and his driving prowess will spill forth. I am sure there is a Daily Mail article with no shortage of people wanting to slag him off for being old and not short of a few quid.

[dhutch]

Purosangue said:

Yes he should think very carefully about driving old boy in a heavy 2 ton Bentley ..has a "moment" shoots forward instead of reverse and demolishes a bench sat in concrete and drives over into Poole Harbour .

Yeah, lucky to get out, but in many ways even more lucky there wasnt a family sitting on the bench.

[OverSteery]

Oddy enough, I had a ride in a new corvette last week. I asked the owner what the extra little plastic handle on the floor was - wrong side for a boot or petrol cap release.
It was an emergency door open, as the locks were electric. I guess it's common now?
Do old TVRs have a way to get out when the electric doors fail?

[John145]

Regarding the little emergency hammers, they wouldn’t work in a Bentley, the glass is laminated double glazed. Enough to stop a claw hammer - remember that video of a robber trying to smash his way into a Bentayga at traffic lights in Manchester(??).