{"id":10998,"date":"2012-11-22T23:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10998"},"modified":"2012-11-22T23:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T23:01:01","slug":"warwickshire-police-advise-on-flood-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10998","title":{"rendered":"Warwickshire Police Advise On Flood Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good <a title=\"Police advice for driving in heavy rain and floods across Warwickshire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk\/news\/local\/police-advice-for-driving-in-heavy-rain-and-floods-across-warwickshire-1-4514644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> advice from the Warwickshire Police<\/a> in this article in the Leamington Spa Courier.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, when driving through puddles and flooded roads which are still passable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>drive slowly and steadily<\/li>\n<li>use first gear<\/li>\n<li>use higher revs and slip the clutch<\/li>\n<li>leave a large gap between you and the car in front<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Water splashing on to electrical components in the car could cause it to cut out, so keeping the engine revving whilst slipping the clutch to keep speed low can avoid this risk. A large gap allows you to take evasive action if the car in front stops.<\/p>\n<p>Most people will know what it\u2019s like when you dive into a swimming pool and land flat. It hurts. Well, driving your car too fast into water has the same effect, on top of which you will create a wave which could soak the engine. It\u2019ll cause you to slow down and the engine could stall &#8211; so don\u2019t try and barge through. It just won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>If a sign tells you a road is closed, don\u2019t be a prat and try and get through. It\u2019s closed for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t immediately accelerate once you\u2019ve gone through water. Test your brakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good advice from the Warwickshire Police in this article in the Leamington Spa Courier. Basically, when driving through puddles and flooded roads which are still passable: drive slowly and steadily use first gear use higher revs and slip the clutch leave a large gap between you and the car in front Water splashing on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}