A TV reporter covering a flood in southeast Queensland swam through rushing water to rescue a trapped motorist alongside another witness.
Cameras caught the moment ABC reporter Will Murray and another man jumped into the water and swam to a submerged ute on Thursday.
The car had driven into floodwater at speed on Buchanan Road in Morayfield, north of Brisbane, but stalled and began to sink.
Murray was covering the weather event, with 170 millimetres of rain falling in three hours, when he saw the sinking vehicle.
He and another man swam out to the single-cab ute and began struggling with the passenger-side door.
However, the door
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