Woman drives car into canal in rain
By CAVINA LIM and TAN SIN CHOW
Saturday, 15 Jul 2017
The car submerged after plunged into monsoon drain during heavy rain in Sungai Puyu, Butterworth yesterday. - (pic courtesy Sin Chew Daily) 14 July 2017.
Butterworth: A woman drove into a canal in Taman Oi Leng Hoi, Sungai Puyu, after missing a turn during a downpour.
She escaped in the nick of time from the window and stood on the car's rooftop while waiting for help in the 7.15am incident yesterday.
"I managed to wind down the window and swim out as the cold water started gushing in.
"Thank God, someone came to my aid after a while," said the woman who declined to be named.
She said she was on her way home after sending her son to school at SJK(C) Li Hwa.
"I missed a turn because the road was flooded. Before I realised it, the car had gone into the canal," she added.
In a statement, the Seberang Prai Municipal Council said the downpour lasted from 3.30am to 6am and the sea level was recorded at 2.2m during that period.
In George Town, a 59-year-old businessman fell into a monsoon drain and drowned at about 6am yesterday.
The man had got out of his stalled car that was caught in floodwaters in Jalan Tun Dr Awang, near the intersection to Relau, to assess the problem.
State Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Mohd Azman Hussin said the body of the man, Lim Kean Chuan, was retrieved from a manhole about 800m from where he fell.
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