They were on their way to Hawke\u2019s Bay from Auckland.<\/p>\n
The passenger side of the car had water up to the windowsill and rising, but the woman was too terrified to get out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was pretty traumatised by the whole situation, so I picked her up like a baby and managed to pass her over to Sergeant Symon Marama-Lyon who was on the other side of the road,\u201d Robertson told Ten One Magazine.<\/p>\n
Robertson and a \u201cyoung fella, Ricky\u201d, who had offered to help, managed to get the other woman out of the car and carry her to safety.<\/p>\n
Robertson said the water was rising quickly as they got the two women out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you were sitting in the car, it would have been mid-chest high,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe passenger side of the road was pretty deep with a real current.\u201d<\/p>\n
They managed to get the car out of the water, then Robertson took the two rescued women to Taup\u014d Hospital.<\/p>\n
When they were released, he put them up in his mother\u2019s house as she was away for the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think about if it was my Mum or my Nana. It was really late at night and at least there they had beds and a dryer \u2013 all their suitcases were soaked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Constable Courtney Robertson came across the stranded pair as he and other staff from across Taup\u014d and Tokoroa responded to several vehicles stuck in flooding on State Highway 1 recently. Photo \/ Ten One Magazine<\/p>\n
The next morning, while off duty, he checked on the women before cleaning and attempting to dry out of their sodden vehicle, which fellow police had driven back to Taup\u014d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good shift. That\u2019s why we do the job right, to help people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kelly, the daughter of one of the two rescued women, described Robertson as a \u201chumble hero\u201d, the magazine reported.<\/p>\n
She said being in Auckland and receiving the Facetime call from her mother, frantically signing what had happened, was a scary moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just couldn\u2019t believe it. Mum said she was in big trouble. I was trying to keep them both calm; neither of them were calm.\u201d<\/p>\n
The relief of seeing \u201cred and blue flashing lights\u201d as Robertson arrived was incredible, as was his extraordinary support that followed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like what he did isn\u2019t the norm. These were two vulnerable ladies. He\u2019s part of the family now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taup\u014d Police area commander, Inspector Phil Edwards, said Robertson saw two vulnerable women in danger and did not hesitate.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just got in there and did what needed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The care Robertson showed the women afterwards also stood out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is exactly the sort of policing our community can be proud of,\u201d he told the police magazine.<\/p>\n
NZME asked police for the date of the incident and names of the women involved and pictured.<\/p>\n
A police spokeswoman said details had been intentionally withheld in consultation with the parties involved, who did not want anything else shared in order to protect their privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They were on their way to Hawke\u2019s Bay from Auckland. The passenger side of the car had water…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,83801,1359,163956,145084,71,12811,57910,111,43,139,2551,69,10932,675,18560,52086,1852,2846,107,8528,1237,1354,2248],"class_list":{"0":"post-297644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-been","9":"tag-deaf","10":"tag-described","11":"tag-fastrising","12":"tag-floodwaters","13":"tag-from","14":"tag-hero","15":"tag-humble","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-night","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-officer","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-rescued","24":"tag-rescues","25":"tag-taup","26":"tag-them","27":"tag-then","28":"tag-trapped","29":"tag-two","30":"tag-woman","31":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}