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What is it with US citizens and driving cars into beaches?
well, usually, it's the tide. People either forget to check where the tide is, forget when the tide starts coming in, or loose track of time. they go out on the flats during low tide, set up their party, maybe get a little drunk.
Maybe whatever they're driving was never meant to go on sand. maybe they don't know how to drive on sand and get stuck.
and maybe it's not a problem exclusive to "US citizens"... (it happens everywhere there's a beach.)
But why drive onto the flats in the first place? Here we park up and walk to the beach. Pretty sure it's illegal to drive on the beach too...
Check out the town of Carova Beach, North Carolina. Accessible only by driving on the beach or by water.
There's A Facebook page dedicated to taking pictures of people getting stuck. Apparently all you have to do is air down your tires to like 12 psi and keep to a reasonable speed, but a lot of people think their car, truck, or SUV can handle sand without those precautions.