....I don't think you understand, Bobby. ;-)
The sole reason the spectators are there is in hope that someone is going to kill their car.
Years ago, the prime spectators were kids (the local authority obligingly building a viewing platform) waiting for the splash as a vehicle drove through at an entirely fordable depth.
Soshul Meja has totally changed that, encouraging people to do very daft things, and attracting a rather different profile to spectate.
Very, very few of the incidents of recovery from there have involved "innocent" drivers getting inadvertently caught out. There is prominent signage, generally augmented by portable "road closed" signs when in spate, all of which gets deliberately ignored.
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