SPRING HILL, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW)  Spring Hill Police posted a series of humorous tweets after a patrol car got stuck on a flooded road.

According to its Twitter feed, the department had been reporting through out the morning Sunday about flooded road conditions, including several that had to be closed due to high water.

At around 11:30, the department issued a tweet showing a car in the water and another that read, “This is beyond embarrassing,” with a picture of an officer in knee deep water struggling to free the patrol car.

Behind these tweets is a serious safety message. “Turn Around, Don’t Drown.”

The phrase is used by police and weather officials as a warning not to drive through an area of roadway covered by flood water.

Just 12 inches of water can carry away a vehicle and more than half of all flood-related drownings occur when a vehicle is driven into flood waters.

Spring Hill is about 30 miles south of Nashville.