Topic: Off Roading Darwin Award

[SteveB]

I saw Tallchevy's post "How to load a boat onto a pickup" and I had to include this

(6 January 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa) Massive thunderstorms had turned the Braamfontein Spruit into a raging river. It was a little past midnight when police warned Barbara, 33, that a flash flood was inundating the bridge ahead. They urged her not to cross. But Barbara was driving a BMW X3, an off-road vehicle with xDrive all-wheel-drive.

Brochures assured her that the luxury SUV with Sensatec upholstery and an 8-speaker stereo system had "virtually unlimited agility." So Barbara laughed off the police advice, and continued towards the bridge. xDrive all-wheel drive lost its grip as the floodwaters swept her BMW X3 off the bridge. Her body was found later inside the vehicle over a mile down the river.

Confirmed True

[Wermz84]

She gets an official   and perhaps one more.     

[79coyotefrg]

sadly this is what happens to HUNDREDS of every year (probably more like every week around here)  they say "Well I'm in a Lincoln Navigator blah bla blah, "  and proceed into water over the road i wouldnt even THINK of crossing in my toyota (light truck plus 35's = floating truck) and they either get rescued by a helicopter as they are clinging to the roof of that "fabulous 4wd/awd suv" begging God  to save them before they drown. 

they should come with disclaimers "if you drive this $40K SUV  like an idiot you'll probably die in it"

[eMOJO]

Had a similar accident (incident) here a few weeks back with flooding over a bridge an old couple in their Subaru AWD got swept off the road... the old bloke bailed and survied only to watch his wife go under with the car