Oh what at fun photo, I had to Google the story…
I wonder what was in the drivers mind? He was driving one of the most recognizable car on the planet, it’s just a “get-about” car, great for taking the kids to school, taking a trip to the grocery store, etc… and he tries to outrun the police… His “excuse” was, “he was scared to stop…”
No, my friend was meeting me at the river for a camping trip. The computer told him to DRIVE INTO THE RIVER so he did it!
As parents used to say “if you friend jumped off a bridge, would you?”.
BTW, in HS, my friend did, and so did I, a bridge about 8 feet above a river we went tubing in. Only downside, I was wearing my glasses, somewhere a nearsighted trout is wearing them.
Excuse me for not closely following this, but one comment grabbed me. When the red or blue lights light me up, I have also felt fear of what was to come. Still I have never run away although one time I should have. What’s the worst that can happen? Some yelling from a drill sarge type and $150, or 175 fine? Neither one has really bothered me in the past. I know how to reduce tensions and driving away or swearing at them is not part of it. None of them has ever found the need to draw his or her weapon in the process. Cheaper and less painful than an oral surgeon and less blood. And humphty dumpty died of a drug over dose. Don’t believe everything you read.
That “Fear” is called “Black 'n White Fever” and I still get it even though I know I am completely legal, and the worse that can happen is usually a small fine… (I am now a pretty safe and careful driver
But it was not always so, but I’m not going to post that story here and now… it would be high jacking the topic… Perhaps another time, another place…
Anytime we have a new member post a link it seems to always be spam…
BTW your hyperlink goes to https:// celicajeep.jeep-india. com/… (spaced out on purpose lol) same as your name, imagine that…
Good try though…
EDIT: NO!! I didn’t click on the link or even check it out… lol
At least this place isn’t Facebook where 90% of the crap is spam/scams and people are conditioned enough to just share and interact with it, often providing criminals with important information about themselves. I mean humans have the ability to land a man on the moon but now seem obsessed with falling for the most idiotic of scams. I have included a screenshot of a car giveaway. I mean a Chinese Power Wheels copy of a Mercedes sitting on a box, claiming to be a Honda Civic. People fall for this crap by the hundreds of thousands and it still amazes me.
Flooded cars are actually better to drive than “rebuilt” cars.
One thing I’ve learned recently(and its weird that I just realized this since I’ve been driving for over a decade) but trust your own sense of direction(what you can see) and use google as a general guide.
I do not want to drive either. The “rebuilt” car which might have been pieced together with the rear end of one vehicle to the front end of another vehicle is is “living” on borrowed time before it starts falling apart. How do you ever weld two separate ends of a vehicle together with today’s unibody (verses body on frame) construction, its all just sheet metal and tack-welds…
As for a flooded car, I suppose you might get a few years out of a fresh water flooded car, but not much more… A Salt Water flooded car is barely going to last a couple of months before the “ghost” problems start rearing their ugly heads…
I know, with so many flooded vehicles, how would you even know if you were just buying used parts from a car junk yard.
Just to say what I said someplace else, on a dark and rainy night, it is very difficult to tell if a bridge or section of it is missing until you are right on it. I’m thinking of St. Louis and always nice to have a car in front of you making it across. Yeah and never buy a flood car. Especially an electric flood car.
If theyve been repaired properly its very slim they’ll fall apart. But between the two, I’d rather drive the flooded one.
Now, I would ask you to take a close look at this photo. If the your GPS directed you down this “road…” would you follow those directions? It looks more like an abandoned logging trail…
A Door Dash Driver, out to deliver a box of Dunkin Donuts, claimed that he was following GPS directions to an address in Middleton, Massachusetts, when the GPS led him down a dirt road and then somehow he ended up driving into a body of water.
The driver, who was not identified, will be charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle and authorities said they are also requesting a suspension of the driver’s license.
Kind of reminiscent of Topic we recently put to bed a while back, "
Google Maps recommends route over bridge that collapsed 10 years ago"
When the road runs out and the branches start slapping your windshield and your seatbelt is the only thing keeping you from bouncing off the roof of your car as you run over the ruts, the “road” ain’t there any more… 
The blue DoorDash car definitely had a bad day. That location reminds me of the big snake-infested mud hole they make the competitors drive through on America’s Truck Night tv show.
Right on 
No contest here. I agree but I don’t follow navigation blindly. I mainly was talking about paved highways or interstates. You just don’t want to be the first person in line that discovers the bridge just washed away. I don’t like those big long Mississippi River bridges at night in the rain and prefer to see tail lights ahead of me on the other side. I didn’t take the 35w bridge the day it collapsed but could have.
No matter how good your navigation seems to be, it is still a program. I followed the wrong route several times, but it was because I didn’t know the location at all. And still, you should look at the road, right?
Speaking about the car, is it alive or junk now? I’ve recently read an article on how to use the car after flooding https://www.voddler.com/is-it-possible-to-use-the-car-after-flooding-with-water-and-fire/ and found it useful. But having looked at the pics of your friend’s car, I doubt there is anything that can make this car work worse.
I had some of the very first versions of these systems back in the day. I learned very early on not to choose the selection for “shortest route” because it will include stuff like this or roads and alleys in the least favorable part of a large city…
That might be excellent for cyclists!
@Bing, I was not trying to compete with you, I only quoted you to try to maintain some continuity in the “conversation…” Sometimes a member posts some information and its meaning is lost in the various “detours” most of our topics take… I do not know if you ever noticed but I have even quoted myself in the past in trying to keep my thoughts consistent.
However, there is one bridge that scares the bejezzus out of me if the weather is not nice. It is the Delaware Memorial Bridge; this toll bridges carry Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 and is also the link between Delaware and New Jersey. The bridge is over two miles long and it’s 175’ at its maximum height. 
I only have to cross this bridge when heading North up thru NJ. The worse time was many years ago and we were traveling up to New York State and it was just before Christmas and the weather was horrible. It was sleeting and the wind was howling. The bridge was operating on its “bad weather protocol” 30 MPH, both the Right most and left most lanes were closed, and no trucks like 18-wheelers and similar trucks allowed. The bridge surface was slick and you could feel your car being buffeted by the wind. It’s not the bridge that bothers me the most, it’s the other drivers who I have to share the road with. Even though the Left and Right most lanes were closed, cars were flying past us in those closed lanes without regard to the slick conditions or the winds buffeting their cars…
The “Freaky” part of going over this bridge is as you drive up the bridge you can see the tail lights of the cars ahead disappear as the cars reach the apex at the highest point and start down the other side…
The bridge has such a bad reputation that the Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) has offered a special service escort services for over 50 years. Call (302) 571-6342, and an officer will be dispatched to you, you’ll sign a waiver, and the officer will drive your car over the bridge. The DRBA notes that sometimes the process might take some time so be prepared to wait for the service, or call ahead. 
Oh geez. I sympathize. Some years ago the wife had meetings in dc and I decided to sight see. I wanted to visit Annapolis. Leaving there I went right instead of left and started seeing all of the bridge signs ahead. I just kept going until there was the bay bridge and across I went. I think it is 175 feet in the air too and close to seven miles long. It took a whole Winston anyway. Then the worst part was I had to come back. That was one heck of a bridge. I pulled a camper across that bridge around Cairo with the two lane narrow and steel grates, but the bay bridge was worse.
I saw a you tube on a guy driving a camper across. Don’t remember what exactly the problem was but something dropped from underneath halfway across. Had to drag the thing the rest of the way, sparks flying, until he could pull over. He had a worse drive.
