A woman is dead after floodwaters dragged her car 200m from a Hungry Jacks drive-through to a nearby creek. She is the second to die in the floods.
A second person has died in treacherous floodwaters in Brisbane after their vehicle was swept 200m from a Hungry Jack’s drive-through into a creek.
Emergency services were called to roads either side of Little Cabbage Tree Creek in Aspley about 8pm on Thursday following reports of a vehicle in floodwaters.
The driver, a 52-year-old Geebung man, was found and treated at the scene, before being taken to Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital in a stable condition.
But police later found the body of a 44-year-old Geebung woman inside the vehicle which was recovered about 11.15pm.
“As they were exiting the drive-through to go back on to Gympie Rd that part of that road was underwater so they’ve driven into the floodwater and the force of the floodwater has swept them into the creek,” Queensland Police Sergeant Mark Jones said.
“The male occupant was able to free himself and swim to an embankment.”
It comes after another Queensland woman died when her car was submerged by floodwaters on Wednesday afternoon.
The 75-year-old woman died when her car was washed away in the city’s west.
Meanwhile, a storm that lashed Pullenvale in outer-west Brisbane flooded the area with almost 60mm of rain roughly an hour before the incident that killed the 75-year-old Taringa woman.
Police, fire, water rescue crews, the dive squad and Polair recovered the body of the woman at about 4.40pm after emergency services were called.
The woman, who was the driver and sole occupant, was found deceased inside the vehicle.
Severe weather has lashed the state in the past fortnight causing rivers and dams to overflow.
At one point on Wednesday afternoon, at least six individual storm cells were bearing down on the state’s southeast.
The Bureau of Meteorology said flood levels were likely to “remain high this week and ease from the weekend”, with more showers anticipated on Friday.
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