Woman rescued after car swept into swollen Bendigo creek as floods peak in Victoria

Man jumped into rushing flood waters and tied 74-year-old woman to a tree after she was swept 100 metres downstream

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A Victorian man jumped into rushing flood waters to save a woman swept away into Bendigo Creek, risking his own life to secure her with ratchet straps to a tree, according to Victoria police.

The 74-year-old woman was driving along Elmore-Raywood Road on Monday night in a convoy with a friend when their vehicles were hit by flood water.

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