Police in Hampshire have warned motorists to take extra care following torrential rain after a sports car slid off an A-road and crashed into a tree.
Police responded at 4.15am to the incident which took place on the A31 near to the junction for the M27.
Hampshire Roads Policing team tweeted an image of the McLaren car down a ditch at the side the road this morning.
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Please be careful on the roads this morning. There is still plenty of standing water around, causing a risk of aquaplaning. Unfortunately the driver of this vehicle found this out the hard way on the #A31! Luckily driver was uninjured! Tree 1 McLaren 0 #ItsNotWorthTheRisk #27526 pic.twitter.com/pJcVj2wBSw
— Hants Roads Policing (@HantsPolRoads) December 29, 2020
The post read: "Please be careful on the roads this morning.
"There is still plenty of standing water around, causing a risk of aquaplaning.
"Unfortunately the driver of this vehicle found this out the hard way on the #A31!...Tree 1 McLaren 0."
A spokesperson for Hampshire Constabulary said: "We were called just before 4.15am today (Dec 29) to a report of a vehicle having left the road on the A31 near to the junction for the M27.
"Officers attended, no injuries were reported."
In the event of aquaplaning, breakdown service The AA advises drivers not to slam on the brakes but to ease off the accelerator, keeping the steering wheel steady and braking once the car is under control.
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