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A search of the River Aln revealed his car, which was unoccupied, had been swept downstream from the ford at Abberwick "as a result of storm water", Mr Hetherington said.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

It is thought the 43-year-old former wing's car was swept away while he tried to drive across a Northumbrian ford during Storm Darragh last month.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

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.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

A third man, in his 80s, died after driving into a ford in Colne, Lancashire.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024

It was only a short way to the ford of the river, near the priory, and from there across fields covered with grazing sheep to the forest.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

The reroute required building a small bridge and establishing new creek fords.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

“The planned route is at least 135 miles long, and depending on the?deviations, avoiding avalanche risks, finding safe river fords, and?wandering in the trees, it could be as much as 150 miles,” Williams said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2016

You have to ford numerous rivers, and the Shoshones, Pawnees and Sioux, were extremely adept at helping the pioneers make these fords.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 12, 2015

Painted in garish colours, Wayne fords a river in a stagecoach pulled by a team of wild-eyed horses.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2013

Then they all heard the sound of hoofs, and at the same moment they saw dark shapes coming swiftly on the path from the fords.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He has picked his way across roads and railways, forded local streams and swum across the River Danube.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

Akil continues down the road that Blume's 1975 novel forded, accurately capturing adolescence's hidden longing and confusion.

From Salon ● May 21, 2025

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.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

The tents belong to some 250 African nationals who crossed jungles, forded rivers, sneaked across borders and dodged militias and thieves to get here in hopes of eventually reaching the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

If I forded the river, I’d hit a tributary that would lead me to Ikwa, the village nearest my mother’s site.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Some had their belongings stolen or damaged while fording rivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

Scotty Jalbert, emergency services manager for San Luis Obispo County, said river crossings can be deceiving and people can run into trouble after successfully fording them several times.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

He described fording knee-deep mud in the jungles of the Darién Gap linking Colombia and Panama.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2022

Jeep says the Grand Cherokee 4xe is capable of water fording up to 24 inches.

From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2021

The prospect of fording this /aife-colored torrent discourages most people from traveling any farther.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer