That'll flood the engine! Driver gets sinking feeling when his Ford Transit gets submerged by incoming tide after getting stuck on the beach

A motorist who drove a Ford Transit van on to a beach in Cornwall discovered the truth of the old adage that time and tide wait for no man after the vehicle was washed into the sea. ‘We went for a lunchtime surf, but didn’t expect to have to dodge a van and a boat.’ Gary Barnett, who witnessed the incident, said the van arrived on Friday afternoon and was still there later that evening. A similar incident occurred at nearby Polzeath beach less than two months ago, when a group of men attempted to extricate a pair of stricken vehicles from the sea during high tide. A Ford Transit van became partially submerged at Crackington Haven in Cornwall after the driver parked the vehicle on the beach to launch a rigid inflatable boat ‘That’s my boyfriend surfing past,’ said an unnamed local. ‘We went for a lunchtime surf, but didn’t expect to have to dodge a van and a boat' ‘It's probably a write-off,’ said Gary Barnett, a local resident who witnessed the incident A similar incident occurred at nearby Polzeath beach in September, when locals had to rescue a white van left too close to the shoreline A stricken Mercedes SUV caused much amusement among residents of Newquay last year after a tourist mistook the beach for 'free parking' To the bemusement of onlookers, a van and a car had been parked too close to the shoreline.