{"id":63347,"date":"2026-10-23T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-man-rescued-from-sinking-car-by-australian-tv-reporter\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:31:59","slug":"moment-man-rescued-from-sinking-car-by-australian-tv-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-man-rescued-from-sinking-car-by-australian-tv-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment man rescued from sinking car by Australian TV reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man in a sinking car has been saved by a TV journalist after driving into deep flood water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Murray was at the scene reporting for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Morayfield, Queensland, when he saw a vehicle drive past him into the water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray, and a bystander, rushed to help the driver as the SUV sank. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray says when it became clear the car was sinking very fast &#8220;there was no thinking involved&#8221;, because the man might have drowned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Better that you jump in and give it a crack&#8221;, Murray tells BBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cwdr8zm3r5gko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in a sinking car has been saved by a TV journalist after driving into deep flood water. Will Murray was at the scene reporting for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Morayfield, Queensland, when he saw a vehicle drive past him into the water. Murray, and a bystander, rushed to help the driver as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[594,558,417,2388,8700,2362,17010],"class_list":["post-63347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australian","tag-car","tag-man","tag-moment","tag-reporter","tag-rescued","tag-sinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63349,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63347\/revisions\/63349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}