Clueless driver is slammed for idiotic act in croc-infested floodwaters: 'Never do this'

A 4WD motorist has been slammed aft his effort to transverse croc-infested floodwaters astir went terribly incorrect and sent his conveyance floating downstream.

A Northern Territory fisherman had been lasting connected the borderline of the swollen Magela Creek astatine Kakadu National Park, successful the Northern Territory, past month.

A Toyota LandCruiser past pulled up and attempted to transverse the h2o contempt a 'road closed' motion being acceptable up nearby.

The fisherman filmed the daring task with footage showing the car propulsion done the floodwaters earlier it stopped astatine the halfway point.

'Drive, drive, drive,' the fisherman yelled astatine the operator successful the TikTok video.

The SUV appeared to interval successful the h2o prompting the fisherman to effort and assistance the driver.

He ran to a car parked connected the broadside looking for enactment to effort and haul it backmost successful erstwhile the stranded operator was deed by a changeable of bully luck.

The h2o appeared to crook the floating 4WD astir earlier the conveyance appeared to reconnect with the road.

The conveyance managed to marque it backmost with a beforehand spot rider opening the doorway to merchandise the h2o that had poured in.

The 2 men wrong the 4WD appeared bedewed and explained they felt the conveyance floating upwards.

The video has been viewed much than 300,000 times and attracted comments from societal media users informing drivers not to hazard their lives.

'Never transverse rivers that are flooded!' the cameraman wrote.

'This chap was precise fortunate arsenic helium conscionable managed to get traction. Could person ended truthful overmuch worse. Drowning oregon eaten by crocs.'

The Kakadu National Park is location to an estimated 10,000 freshwater and saltwater crocodiles. 

Many societal media users were shocked the operator attempted to transverse the creek without archetypal checking the depth.

'How galore times bash radical person to beryllium told, if it’s flooded, hide it, don’t thrust done it,' 1 wrote.

'Why would you effort this?' different asked.

'If you can't locomotion it, you can't thrust it (old truckie proverb),' a 3rd wrote.

Others pointed retired the brace should person followed the directions of the roadworthy signage.

'If lone determination was a motion oregon thing to archer radical not to usage that portion of the road,' 1 remarked sarcastically.

'Maybe thing similar "road closed".'

'[Then] they thrust past a h2o marker astatine [the] apical of their tyre marker, nary f***ing idea,' different added.