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It is thought the former wing's vehicle was swept away while he tried to drive across a ford during Storm Darragh.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

However, some believe the dangers of the ford have been overstated.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024

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.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024

Here the Snowbourn flowed near to the western walls of the dale, and soon the path led them to a ford where the shallow waters murmured loudly on the stones.

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

There are regularly stories of drivers who end up going through floods, fords and teetering on the edge of canals after following their GPS systems, prompting warnings about the dangers of slavishly following the route.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

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

This followed the line of the river, which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see, flowing smoothly without fords, gravel shallows or plank bridges.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

During the civil war, tens of thousands of desperate people forded that river and crossed into Afghanistan.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

Streams we could have forded easily enough—Marlene seemed quite happy to go back and forth carrying two of us at a time.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

I did research other options but they all seemed to involve fording rivers and oxen dying.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

Baumbach, working on a larger scale than he has before, pulls off a few fine cinematic coups, one of them involving that station wagon fording a swollen stream.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

We trudged on, through fields and forests, fording streams where we had to, following Peter, following his compass.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo