BEACHGOERS are being advised to always check the tide times after 14 cars fell victim to the incoming tide at Ynyslas Beach within the space of a week.

Borth coastguards had a busy seven days in the lead up to the bank holiday weekend after they were called on four separate occasions to assist with cars which had become submerged by the incoming tide at the Dyfi Ynyslas Nature Reserve.

The first call came at 2.37am on Sunday, 21 May, when coastguards and the police responded to reports a car had become stuck in estuarine mud at the beach, with two persons on board and an incoming tide.

The car and its occupants were safely recovered amid fears of fuel and oil leaks contaminating the popular nature reserve.

And at 8.05am on Thursday, 25 May, Borth coastguards were again called to Ynyslas, where a number of vehicles had been cut off and inundated by the high spring tide, and become stuck in the soft sand.

Safety advice was issued by coastguards and by Dyfed-Powys Police, and Borth Coastguard remained on scene until all persons had either recovered their vehicle or arranged an alternative lift off the nature reserve.

The next evening, at 8.51pm on Friday, 26 May, coastguards received more reports of several vehicles inundated by the tide at Ynyslas Beach.

Borth coastguards, who attended alongside police, helped recover two cars from the water and waited on scene until the owners of the other vehicles returned and the tide had retreated enough to allow them to drive away again.

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