Woman killed after flash flooding sweeps car off bridge
DALLAS COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) - A woman was killed in Mesquite when flash flooding swept her car off the Scyene Rd. bridge.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner later identified the victim as Joleen Jarrell, 60, from Dallas.
Firefighters retrieved her body after the high creek water subsided later in the afternoon on Aug. 22.
The woman's friends said Jarrell was on her way home. She was on the phone with her husband as her car began to flood.
They said Jarrell told him the water was up to her ankles, then up to her knees… and that it felt like someone was pushing her car.
Then, the line went dead.
Jarrell's family rushed out here to search for her not long after but it wasn't until the water went down that the tire of her car became visible.
Friends said, her husband was the first to spot it and immediately knew it was his wife's car.
Just downstream from where Jarrell was found, several other cars were also swept off the road.
"You had to swim because the water was up passed my chest," a witness told CBS 11. "And my car… the water had my car and it just floated on in the ditch."