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FLOOD NIGHTMARE TRAPPED IN A SINKING CAR!

Jack Norman, 17, Northampton, WA

Drive carefully, Jack,’ said my girlfriend, Courtney, 16.

‘Okay, see you soon,’ I said, kissing her goodbye.

Then I drove off into the night in my mum’s new Mitsubishi 380 – she’d lent it to me as it had better headlights than my car.

It was Thursday evening, March 18 this year, and I was headed to the property where I worked as a farmhand.

Being an almost 90-minute drive away, it was easier to

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