Sussex Police come to rescue of elderly driver stuck in mud for five hours (From The Argus)
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Sussex Police come to rescue of elderly driver stuck in mud for five hours
12:05pm Monday 11th February 2013 in News
An elderly driver was trapped in mud for more than five hours after becoming lost trying to avoid flooded roads.
The 82-year old Dorset man was driving his Jaguar from Newhaven towards his home when he was diverted off the A27 at Chichester due to surface flooding at 10.40pm on Sunday, February 10 and became stuck in an isolated rural area.
Sussex Police officers at first struggled to locate the man because of darkness and bad weather and the man’s mobile phone had gone flat.
He was finally located at just before 3.30am this morning (February 11) after officers in the police control room carried out a detailed analysis of electronic records from his call and managed to establish his exact whereabouts in Norwood Lane between Graffham and East Lavington close to Midhurst.
A police 4x4 then pulled the car clear and he was able to carry on his journey home without any need for medical attention.
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Comments(11)
NickBrt
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12:20pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Sarah Booker Lewis
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12:37pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Tailgaters Anonymous
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12:44pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Pity for the elderly gentleman and trust Sussex finest offer some tangible sign of regret at their incompetence!
Al Bion
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1:05pm Mon 11 Feb 13
It still reads: "the man’s flat battery on his mobile phone had gone flat."
emma_barnes
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1:17pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Tailgaters Anonymous wrote:what ?
Moral of this tale, if you choose to get stuck in mud or lost avoid Sussex at all costs!
Pity for the elderly gentleman and trust Sussex finest offer some tangible sign of regret at their incompetence!
jesss2012
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1:49pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Tailgaters Anonymous wrote:I think the moral of this story is..if you can afford to drive a Jaguar...go the whole hog and splash out on a satnav too...unless thats the very reason he was so lost.
Moral of this tale, if you choose to get stuck in mud or lost avoid Sussex at all costs!
Pity for the elderly gentleman and trust Sussex finest offer some tangible sign of regret at their incompetence!
paul76
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2:11pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Tailgaters Anonymous wrote:So having been given no clear location or directions of where the man was, you are having a go at the police for not finding him sooner.
Moral of this tale, if you choose to get stuck in mud or lost avoid Sussex at all costs! Pity for the elderly gentleman and trust Sussex finest offer some tangible sign of regret at their incompetence!
I am guessing they had to drive around miles of country lanes in the rough area of where the man thought he was trying to locate him.
And at what point did his mobile die? If it was half way through telling them where he was, they had little chance of finding him easily did they?
mimseycal
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3:59pm Mon 11 Feb 13
AmboGuy
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6:45pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Tailgaters Anonymous wrote:Yaaaaawn
Moral of this tale, if you choose to get stuck in mud or lost avoid Sussex at all costs!
Pity for the elderly gentleman and trust Sussex finest offer some tangible sign of regret at their incompetence!
One of your usual knee-jerk anti Police statements.
Just because you come from a 'problem family' and have had many run ins with the Police doesn't mean we want to hear your rubbish all the time.
Dave At Home
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10:21pm Mon 11 Feb 13
wm2694 wrote:The man's mobile phone had gone flat now, nothing about the battery draining of losing power, it just went flat. Maybe reporters should do the work themselves instead of copy and pasting, at least they can say they tried and as for the old bill leaving this bloke lost for 5 hours, I suppose if we still had the helicopter based at Shoreham it could have made a sweep of the area but as it's based elsewhere now.....
"Sussex Police officers at first struggled to locate the man because of darkness and bad and the man’s flat battery on his mobile phone had gone flat."
That makes total sense...
wm2694 says...
12:11pm Mon 11 Feb 13
That makes total sense...