Wednesday 25 November
02.07 Broadstone Lane, Kingston Seymour
Firefighters from Weston-super-Mare and Yatton fire stations
were involved in a wide scale search to find two people whose car
had ended up in a rhyne.
The crews joined police officers in the search around the Yatton
Moor and Congresbury areas after the male driver involved in the
single vehicle road traffic collision rang 999. The caller was
unsure of his exact location, but reported the car had finished
partially submerged in a rhyne with a female passenger still inside
the vehicle.
Following a search lasting two hours, the emergency services
located the car on Broadstone Lane near Kingston Seymour. Fire
crews assisted the female passenger to safety; she had remained in
the car which was submerged in water to the level of the windows.
The male driver was out of the vehicle when fire crews arrived.
Both people, aged in their 20s, were taken to hospital suffering
from the effects of the cold.