Deep in the English countryside lies an ancient river crossing that has been in use in various forms for at least 1,000 years. The site also featured in the Domesday Book (a two-volume medieval census of the estates and inhabitants of England) and attracted Cistercian monks who built a nearby abbey, and more recently it appears to have been a useful home for travelers to Nottinghamshire. But Rufford Ford Road has now been closed after videos of cars driving through it have garnered hundreds of millions of views on social media.
Neil Clark, a local decision-maker, ordered the crossing closed about a year ago at the request of firefighters and police, who were no longer able to face the fact that a small rural crossing had become one of the most famous roads in the country. the world.
With the age of social media, it has become a tourist attraction. People drive their cars there specifically to cross the flowing river, but they don't realize how deep it is and suddenly their car starts floating in the water.
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The crossing called Rufford crosses the Rainworth Water, a small river to the east. When the weather is dry, the river crosses the road with only a few drops of water, which can be crossed easily, but after heavy rains, the crossing becomes flooded to a depth of several metres, which can be very dangerous.
Exaggerated optimism Drivers However, even after that, they drive through it and realize that they did something stupid only when their car has already turned into a boat due to the flood. This had been a problem in the area for many years, and then in 2020, local teenager, Ben Gregory, started uploading videos he had recorded of cars submerging in water to YouTube, and the small Nottinghamshire lane suddenly became a global tourist hotspot with an obsessed fan base.
This was recently put to rest by the local mayor, but these videos are still spreading like wildfire on YouTube. As you can clearly see in the video below, drivers are really doing their best to get around the flooded section of road.
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