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Mods, can this be made a sticky, might be important! I certainly think it's important right now!! 
Mostly the places we go on lanes are reasonably benign, and on Tuesday this week it was just so. We knew there was a ford down a lane, we'd crossed the same river on a green lane an hour or so earlier, but it was a single lane road. So the group waited while I scouted ahead to see what it was like, I'm experienced, happy to recce and 'know what I'm doing', but the rest is history, I was swept away.
The group knew nothing of this, despite cb's .. I must have panicked and gabbled, struggling to keep it upright I could barely speak and hold the cb. I eventually raised the alarm by phoning David during the moments when it was steady and stable, the cb had already died, being low down and susceptible to water!!!
He couldn't see me, though I could he and had to be guided to me, my roof was still sticking out of the water, it was only after he arrived that it finally dropped into the hole. If he hadn't seen me go, and hadn't known where to look, I doubt anyone would have found me for a while as I couldn't get out of the river alone.
So. the point of the post ...
I'd suggest that whenever anyone goes ahead to recce a part of the lane that two vehicles go, one to stay well away from any danger, but to keep the lead vehicle in sight as far as possible .. 'just in case' and to retain some form of effective and calm communication with the rest of the group.
I'd gone ahead 'cos earlier we'd all had to reverse out of a lane .. two reversing out isn't much harder or time-consuming than one and is so much safer.
Just a thought ...
Mostly the places we go on lanes are reasonably benign, and on Tuesday this week it was just so. We knew there was a ford down a lane, we'd crossed the same river on a green lane an hour or so earlier, but it was a single lane road. So the group waited while I scouted ahead to see what it was like, I'm experienced, happy to recce and 'know what I'm doing', but the rest is history, I was swept away.
The group knew nothing of this, despite cb's .. I must have panicked and gabbled, struggling to keep it upright I could barely speak and hold the cb. I eventually raised the alarm by phoning David during the moments when it was steady and stable, the cb had already died, being low down and susceptible to water!!!
He couldn't see me, though I could he and had to be guided to me, my roof was still sticking out of the water, it was only after he arrived that it finally dropped into the hole. If he hadn't seen me go, and hadn't known where to look, I doubt anyone would have found me for a while as I couldn't get out of the river alone.
So. the point of the post ...
I'd suggest that whenever anyone goes ahead to recce a part of the lane that two vehicles go, one to stay well away from any danger, but to keep the lead vehicle in sight as far as possible .. 'just in case' and to retain some form of effective and calm communication with the rest of the group.
I'd gone ahead 'cos earlier we'd all had to reverse out of a lane .. two reversing out isn't much harder or time-consuming than one and is so much safer.
Just a thought ...
