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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Tim Burrows

Abandon shipment: how an Amazon van got marooned on the UK’s ‘most dangerous path’

Amazon van on an expanse of mudflats
The driver used the route along the Broomway as the bridge to Foulness Island was closed. Photograph: Jacqueline Lawrie/LNP

People thought they were looking at an AI image: an Amazon delivery van half-submerged at the mouth of the Thames estuary where it meets the North Sea. “I thought someone had just knocked up a photograph,” says local guide Kevin Brown about first seeing it online.

It turned out the image was genuine, and it proliferated. There was something delightfully primordial about it – such a dominant sight of modern street life, just out there on the mud, vulnerable and surrounded by nothingness. Banter followed, images of an Amazon package floating in sea water: Amazon has made your delivery.

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