Crazy footage shows drivers battling flooded motorway as roads submerged in water
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThis is the moment brave drivers attempted to battle a flooded motorway after torrential rain left the road submerged in water.
The M57 in Merseyside has since been closed in both directions, as heavy rain across the region left the motorway impassable.
A yellow weather warning for rain was in place this morning across parts of the North West, touching on the border of Greater Manchester, but largely covering Lancashire and Merseyside. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link. One video, sent to the ECHO, taken from a taxi at 5.50am this morning (August 26) shows the vehicle ploughing through a huge body of water formed on the M57 at Switch Island.
The emergency services can be seen monitoring the situation and giving instructions with the water appearing to have risen high up close to the door of the taxi.
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