Drivers rescued from swollen city floodways
Published: March 10, 2006
GOOD Samaritans rescued two women from vehicles on floodways as heavy rains pounded suburban access roads yesterday.
Falls of up to 163mm were recorded in the city overnight Wednesday.
In the first incident on the Holts Road floodway at Bea- consfield, water about a metre deep buffeted a stalled sedan about 7.10am.
A four-wheel driver quickly hooked up the woman’s vehicle.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) officers, whose headquarters was just a few metres away, went to help but the woman was safe and unharmed.
They put up barricades to close off the road.
‘‘The car had been buffeted by swiftly flowing water about a metre deep — that can be very dangerous,’’ North Mackay station officer Pat O’Shea said yesterday.
The water did not push the vehicle off the road so the driver was lucky.’’
In a second incident, on Golflinks Road, just a few hundred metres north, a woman climbed to safety into a fourwheel drive after her vehicle stalled.
The floodway, south of Norths Leagues Club, had about 300mm of water across it.
The woman, who did not want to be named, said she had seen previous vehicles cross safely.
‘‘I just followed after making a judgement. The car just stalled about halfway across,’’ she said.
People at the scene said the water rose visibly as the woman went to cross.
Her car received some water damage in the incident about 9am.
The two floodways remained closed for a number of hours yesterday morning.
Beaconsfield Road, linking the front of the Mackay Golf Course and Beaconsfield, was also covered by floodwater for some time.
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