DRIVERS were trapped in their cars by floodwater with several motorists having to be rescued as fire crews release full details.

Although more motorists are said to be heeding the advice not to drive into floodwater, there were two incidents over the weekend where people did so and fire crews had to respond. 

Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS) responded to vehicles in water in Goodrich, near Ross-on-Wye, and close to Bewdley Town Football Club between 7am on Saturday and 7am on Monday. 

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That follows a much busier spell between 7am on Friday and 7am on Saturday. Crews responded to five incidents of vehicles in water as well as call-outs to two rescues from water and a dog saved from the edge of the river bank in Leominster, Herefordshire.

In Moreton on Lugg, three vehicles were involved and one person was rescued. Later on the same day, a man was rescued in the Herefordshire village after being trapped in his vehicle.

There were also three vehicles caught up in floodwater in Letton and another in Goodrich.

At a reported rescue in Lower Bullingham Lane, Hereford, two people had made their own way to safety.

A woman in her 60s was pulled from water in Hoarwithy after her vehicle was stuck in floodwater.

Crews attended a rescue at Shell Ford, Himbleton, although the driver of the stranded car had escaped before arrival.

There was a similarly-busy period between 7am on Thursday and 7am on Friday involving eight vehicles in floodwater and the rescue of a man from Walcot Ford, Drakes Broughton.

Between 7am last Friday and 7am on Friday (January 13), Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (HWFRS) responded to 15 vehicles in water during the flooding.

That includes eight between 7am on Thursday and 7am today, and there was also a rescue from water at Walcot Ford, Walcot Lane, Drakes Broughton on Thursday.

The vehicles in water in that 24-hour period included three at Leintwardine Bridge and other incidents in Paytoe Lane, Leintwardine, at Willersley, Eardisland, Yarkhill and Headley Heath near Wythall.

In Drakes Broughton, near Pershore, crews rescued a man in his 50s from a partially-submerged vehicle in fast-flowing floodwater.

Last weekend, vehicles in water were also attended to in Leintwardine, Letton, at Shell Ford, Himbleton, and in Houndsfield Lane, Trueman’s Heath.