How to spot and avoid a flood damaged vehicle | 11 easy tips
Water-damaged cars pop up on the market all too often.
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Typhoon Jebi destroys 51 Ferraris at dealership in Japan
The damage is estimated at nearly $9 million.
Water rescues, flooded roads as rains hammer U.S. mid-Atlantic
A reminder never to drive into floodwaters.
12 tips to tell if you're buying a flood-damaged used car
Every year, it seems a few major hurricanes batter the coast, ruining property, disrupting lives, and immersing a bunch of cars in nasty floodwater. Some of those cars are scrapped through the proper channels, but unscrupulous middlemen sometimes peddle the cars to witting or unwitting sales outlets, often without a trace of the car's soggy history. So it's always a good time to review the basics of how to avoid buying a flood-damaged used car.
Flooding from Hurricane Harvey destroys thousands of vehicles
After a disaster, the National Insurance Crime Bureau works with companies and authorities to identify cars with insurance claims to process them for sale.
2,000 rescued from cars, homes in Houston; 6 drown in van swept away by flood
Latest developments in the flooding from Hurricane Harvey.
Houston TV reporter flags down crew to rescue truck driver in flood
Water had filled the cab of his truck.
School bus driver fired after driving kids through floodwater
She got out and moved barricades on a closed road
Tesla video shows Model S swimming through flooded tunnel
Tesla Model S owner in Kazakhstan finds out his electric sedan makes a halfway decent boat.
Man charges car into deep water, immediately regrets it
A driver in England immediately regretted his decision to charge into the waters of a flooded street, becoming stranded in the process.
This is why you should never drive onto a flooded road
This video illustrates the perils of driving in a flood.
Monster truck driver saves women trapped by flood
A man and his monster truck saved the day yesterday after a woman became trapped by a flooding river in Texas.
Driver saved from sinking car in Houston by live news reporter
A reporter in Houston watches a car drive into a flooded overpass, but he's exasperated with the driver. The journalist isn't very excited the prospect of helping to save the guy.
Dogged Cornish motorist drives through storm surge
On April 10, a massive storm swept across Cornwall, a county at the far southwest tip of England. A surprisingly high spring tide combined with 65 mile per hour winds flooded coastal towns and tore the roofs from houses.
Mud covers highways, strands drivers in Southern California
About 200 cars were swamped by a mudslide in the mountains and desert north of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
Flash flood in Spain turns roads into raging rivers
Heavy rains caused a flash flood in the streets of the costal town of Adra, Spain, Monday afternoon.
Texas floods may have damaged 10,000 cars [w/video]
As many as 10,000 vehicles have been damaged or totaled as a result of the recent flooding in Texas, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Here's how to be sure you don't get tricked into buying one.
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