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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

Search teams gathered from first light and are scouring the banks of the river from the ford between Bolton and Abberwick, all the way to the sea at Alnmouth.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

They have been scouring the area around Abberwick ford where a minor road crosses the River Aln near the village of Bolton in North Northumberland.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024

There was a ford in front of the drugstore, but I didn’t even look at it.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

‘My lord,’ he said to the king, ‘there are horsemen behind us. As we crossed the fords I thought that I heard them. Now we are sure. They are overtaking us, riding hard.’

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

We forded creeks 2 to 3 feet deep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

We forded over to Noddle’s Island across the low Channel, climbing up the Rocks in double File, crouched like Crabs for Footing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

Sam will topple over in the middle of fording a river if his fast-draining stamina gauge runs out.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

They followed the sounds around a lazy bend of the road and saw them; a column of armed men noisily fording a swollen stream.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin