Guidance

Transport hazard summary: surface water flooding

Provides information about surface water flooding and its impact on safety, damage to vehicles and disruption to transport services.

• From: Department for Transport and Met Office
• Published: 25 September 2025

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Transport hazard summary: surface water flooding

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Details

This summary identifies some of the main risks caused by surface water flooding, such as sudden flash flooding in busy areas and how they can impact transport. It also provides advice to help mitigate and plan for these risks.

Direct impacts from surface water flooding include:

• impacts to safety due to rapid flooding trapping vehicles and passengers
• damage to vehicles and disruption to transport services

This forms part of the Transport hazards summaries series, which helps organisations understand hazards that can impact UK transport.

Published 25 September 2025