Is this someone we know?

[chaser]

Afraid this one will have damp now.

Desperate attempts were made to save campervan swamped by sea at Gwynedd beach

Some had claimed that no one had come to the aid of the motorhome

www.dailypost.co.uk

 

[Roger S]

I wouldnt want to be driving my new Defender in the sea either wih that salt water

 

[Manic]

I think if I got stuck once I wouldn’t be hanging around and getting stuck again.

 

[Landy Andy]

I wouldnt want to be driving my new Defender in the sea either wih that salt water

It’s all plastic anyway

 

[Jim]

I blame the motorhome makers and their glossy brochures. You'll never, ever, see a photo in a brochure of a van on a campsite. It's always on a beach or in a buttercup meadow. These people just want to holiday like they were promised they would when they bought it.

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[chaser]

I think if I got stuck once I would be hanging around and getting stuck again.

Wants some believing doesn't it.

 

[The Wino]

Hard to tell from the photos but I thought I could see some sign writing on the back I wonder if it's a rental van. The insurance claim is going to make interesting reading!

 

[ChrisL]

I wouldnt want to be driving my new Defender in the sea either wih that salt water

Me neither, I saw a similar thing happen to a young woman trying to retrieve a speed boat from Oxwich beach, several people tried to help but even with two vehicles towing they couldn't pull her out, eventually they had to give up, the boat floated off the trailer and was recovered but the car was floating out to sea when we were leaving.

 

[golly]

Would the insurance pay out in a case like this ? It could be argued that they had been reckless in driving on the beach in the first case.

 

[Jim]

Would the insurance pay out in a case like this

Yes, they will pay. Stupidity is almost always covered; otherwise, motor insurance claims would be rare.

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[The Wino]

Would the insurance pay out in a case like this ? It could be argued that they had been reckless in driving on the beach in the first case.

Imagine the future premiums!

 

[PlacidoD]

Hard to tell from the photos but I thought I could see some sign writing on the back I wonder if it's a rental van. The insurance claim is going to make interesting reading!

Surely almost certainly a rental. I cannot imagine an owner taking that risk once let alone twice.

No way would I take my MoHo onto a beach let alone a sandy beach!

 

[Barti Ddu]

Subsequent footage of it bobbing up and down.

Campervan swamped by sea as alluring but notorious beach claims another victim

The sea siren like Traeth y Greigddu (Black Rock Sands) has lured another vehicle into danger

www.dailypost.co.uk

It's a regular occurrence.

Here's a van conversion a few days earlier.

Stranded VW campervan saved by ‘snorkel’ as rough seas batter notorious beach

The incident has prompted calls for greater safeguards

www.dailypost.co.uk

Heres a previous drowned motorhome from 3 years ago.

Motorhome stuck on Welsh beach

Apologies if already posted, couldn't find if was, but... Can you believe this? It has to be a hire van, surely? https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/holidaymakers-panic-motorhome-gets-stuck-23804714?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

 

[daventess]

I don't feel so bad hitting that lamp post now ...

 

[daventess]

If it's bobbing up and down, then it's still afloat, which means it can't be full of water doesn't it?

I'd suggest, not entirely seriously, that he must have one enviously watertight MH!

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[Grummyb]

The article said the owner had to be rescued earlier in the day which must take some kind of stupid to do it twice

 

[scotjimland]

you can't educate stupid ...

 

[chaser]

I remember driving up and down that beach in the 60s in an a35 van , great days but I thought it had been closed to vehicles sometime later .

 

[pappajohn]

Absolutely no sympathy from me.
They got stuck and freed the first time then despite warnings not to go on the sand they chose to ignore the advice.
I hope their insurers laugh in their face.

 

[scotjimland]

I learned to drive on Croy Shore , a beach in Ayrshire, in my dad's. Commer Cob van ..
at low tide it was a huge expanse of hard packed sand .. I could barely reach the pedals.. lol

I believe it is now closed to vehicles.. the NT have now opened a car park at the beach entrance

Croy Shore Beach · Shore, Croy, Maybole KA19 8JS

★★★★★ · Beach pavillion

www.google.co.uk

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[meanders]

Had similar foolishness on a Fun rally at Peterborough when it had rained hard. Many of us worked hard to get vans moving with instructions to get onto the roadways once moving. One well dug in van on a downward slope took some moving. Went twenty feet on the grass and stopped to 'wait for his mate' so promptly stuck in the mud again! Sometimes you can't make it up.

 

[swemmy666]

I think if I got stuck once I wouldn’t be hanging around and getting stuck again.

those that fail to learn the lessons of history....

 

[Ratcatcher]

Used to regularly go to Black Rock Sands to drive on the beach.

 

[Hawkstone]

Hard to tell from the photos but I thought I could see some sign writing on the back I wonder if it's a rental van. The insurance claim is going to make interesting reading!

It’s a Rollerteam Sport. It comes with racing word graphics on the garage area. We see a lot at motocross. Some people put two motocross bikes in the garage which is about 200kg, pressure washers and extra water. I would hate to think how much over the payload they are

 

[chesterfield hooligan]

So this is where the term "Land Yacht" comes from LOL

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[scotjimland]

a condom could have prevent this event

 

[KUSKUS]

We were there two weeks ago and there was three motorhomes on the beach, I wouldn't dream of taking my motorhome on there.

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Apparantly it was taken out by the tide.

Campervan stuck in the sand at popular beach is swept out to sea

The motorhome was eventually overwhelmed by the tide and lost just off Traeth y Greigddu - Black Rock Sands - near Porthmadog despite the efforts of jetskiers using 4x4s to try and save it

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Gromett]

Hard to tell from the photos but I thought I could see some sign writing on the back I wonder if it's a rental van. The insurance claim is going to make interesting reading!

I agree. It was my first thought when the article said it had been stuck on the same beach earlier and helped out.

If it was owned by the driver they would have learned their lesson and not risked it again. A renter doesn't give a monkey's and would take the risk again.

 

[Lisa]

Had similar foolishness on a Fun rally at Peterborough when it had rained hard. Many of us worked hard to get vans moving with instructions to get onto the roadways once moving. One well dug in van on a downward slope took some moving. Went twenty feet on the grass and stopped to 'wait for his mate' so promptly stuck in the mud again! Sometimes you can't make it up.

You're right, sometimes you can't make it up and I remember the flip side of that. It was also Peterborough and a Marshal (after it had rained hard and was probably the same rally) decided to direct me from the top of the field to the bottom where everyone was getting stuck, only to be parked right in front of the roadway. Why he couldn't just direct me onto the roadway and reverse in the first line - beyond belief!

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