Jeremy Bowen recalls a bridge on the route between Dagestan and Chechnya being blown up, disrupting the crew's access to Grozny. Other vehicles followed a long diversion along a muddy riverbank toward another crossing. Cameraman Steve proposed driving their armored Land Rover directly through the river instead. Bowen doubted whether the vehicle could cross, but the driver accelerated through water that covered the bonnet and broke over the windscreen before they reached the other bank.
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A destroyed bridge prompted an improvised river crossing
Damage to a bridge disrupted the route into Grozny, and the crew chose an improvised river crossing in its armored Land Rover.