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A water level indicator at the ford showed the river was still around one foot deep, but it would have been much higher at the weekend when Storm Darragh lashed the UK.

For decades, cars have been splashing through a notorious ford to the delight of onlookers, making it both a tourist attraction and social media sensation.

Klemperer and his colleagues, including collaborators in China, traversed dirt roads and forded streams to collect samples from some 200 natural springs across nearly 1000 kilometers of southern Tibet.

On Wednesday, a van driver in north Essex had a "lucky escape" after his vehicle ended up in a flooded ford.

A taxi driver said he was "fully freezing" after his car filled with water at a ford notorious for flooding.