Family fail in desperate battle to save car from submerging after boat launch

A Range Rover owner could only look on in horror as her family saw their precious car float away in a river on Sunday (July 17) after the vehicle suffered engine failure.

She told of their desperation to save the 13-year-old motor in the Cornish waters after proceedings took a turn for the worse at the harbour, as they attempted to launch a boat from a trailer that was attached to the back of the Range Rover.

The annual visitors backed the vehicle down the slipway, like they had done many times before, but this time it broke down and rolled into the body of water, although they were able to retrieve their belongings before the 4×4 submerged under the water and disappeared, reports CornwallLive.

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The owner’s frustration was heightened by locals ridiculing them and posting pictures of the incident on social media, accusing them of being ‘wet behind the ears’ tourists who had been caught out by the tide.

She said: “We did not ‘go off on our jollies’ leaving car to submerge, we were there the whole time. We watched it happen to our car in the early hours of the morning when we launched our boat.

“The car broke down and despite every attempt to recover it, we instead had to retrieve all our belongings and watch it disappear. We launched at low tide at 3.30am as advised by the boatyard, alternatively it would have been afternoon low tide, but as it is such a busy place we wouldn’t have been able to get the boat down the narrow road.

“Unfortunately, because it was so early there was nobody around to help us. We are not stupid, we have launched from there numerous times. This time unfortunately the car let us down.

“The people who were stood photographing, videoing and enjoying our heartbreak really do say a lot for the human race. My son had to watch as the water rose over the car while his mum was sobbing next to him.

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“I realise that the actual truth doesn’t quite have the same appeal. We were on that beach from 3.30am until 8pm last night and only three people actually helped us in the whole time we were there.”

The item on the roof of the car they bought for £6,000, which people had assumed was a towel, was actually a rope they had used in the rescue attempt a the slipway where they launch their boat every year.

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