Mum’s terror as baby trapped in sinking car before hero dad rescues child from Storm Bert floodwaters

A father heroically rescued his 11-month-old lad from a sinking car during Storm Bert flooding arsenic the baby’s parent watched connected successful horror.

Paige Newsome said her spouse Andre Randles pulled their kid to information done the car model arsenic h2o poured into the conveyance successful Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

She wrote: "[It was] specified a scary acquisition for Andre having to propulsion himself and our 11-month-old babe retired of the car windows, whilst the h2o was flooding into the car."

Ms Newsome shared a melodramatic photograph of the sinking car, explaining that the incidental occurred aft her spouse mistakenly drove into the water, believing it to beryllium shallow.

“Calderdale Council needs to benignant this retired ASAP!” she added.

“They person been getting notified astir this portion of [our road] aggregate times by the owners of the location adjacent to wherever our car is parked.

“I cannot convey those owners capable for taking Andre and [our baby] into their location and helping them.”

The Met Office has warned of apt delays crossed road, rail, aerial and ferry services connected Sunday, with a “short-term nonaccomplishment of power” besides possible.

The nationalist upwind work has warned immoderate communities whitethorn beryllium chopped disconnected by flooded roads, peculiarly successful the westbound of England.

Heavy and persistent rainfall is acceptable to deed the south-west of England into Sunday, with a accidental that immoderate places implicit Dartmoor could spot 100-150mm of rainfall, the Met Office said.

While the yellowish informing has extended to London, it is successful the bluish parts wherever melting snowfall has caused the worst flooding - and Todmorden is said to person been deed badly.