Man dies after floods trap him in car A woman wades through floodwater in Evesham, Worcestershire. A man died after becoming trapped in his car in flood water as the poor weather continued to cause problems across swaths of the UK. The victim's vehicle was wedged under a bridge on Thursday night close to a ford in Chew Stoke, Somerset, eight miles south of Bristol. Fire crews and police attended but could not save the man. Rescuers were waiting for the waters to retreat before retrieving the car. Nearby in Bath, there were problems for rush-hour commuters after a landslip made a street near the city centre impassable. More problems were also in store for train passengers, as Virgin Trains reported disruptions through Watford Junction, and in the north-west, north Wales and south-west Scotland, while South West Trains said there was "major disruption to west of England services caused by severe weather." Southeastern reported major disruptions on three lines. The heavy rain also caused a wall to collapse last night in St David's Hill in Exeter, Devon. Police said initial searches indicated no one was trapped beneath the rubble but as a precaution the fire brigade was using thermal imaging cameras and a sniffer dog to check. On Thursday, homes and businesses were flooded, tens of thousands of pounds of damage was caused by high winds, and journeys by road and rail were disrupted as the UK was battered again by rain and gales. A band of heavy rain accompanied by winds of 70mph moved across much of the country from the north-west, bringing with it chaos. Forecasters said there was likely to be a reprieve on Friday before another weather front arrives at the weekend, this time from the south-west. The bad weather continued overnight, with the heaviest rainfall between 6pm and midnight - 22mm - recorded in Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, while Bournemouth saw 19mm. On Friday morning the Environment Agency had in place 90 flood warnings across the country - meaning flooding is expected - 45 of them in the south-west, where much of the rainfall overnight fell on already saturated ground. In addition, there were 211 flood alerts. Currently, the Met Office sees the potential for gusts of 60 to 70mph for south-eastern coastal counties of England overnight on Saturday and into Sunday. People in Halberton, Devon, were evacuated after a section of the 200-year-old Great Western canal crumbled, allowing water to pour into fields. People were evacuated from the Billing Aquadrome campsite in Northamptonshire, while in Devon the coastguard warned people to stay out of the sea after a canoeist got into difficulty off Burgh Island, sparking an air and sea rescue effort. Bad weather also affected the House of Commons when the Tory MP Roger Gale raised the case of a shipment of livestock that had made it halfway across the Channel before being beaten back by the weather. On a typical Thursday it attends about 9,500 incidents. This Thursday it was expecting to reach 13,000.