Body found near floodwaters in northern NSW; Two women crushed by fallen tree in Pymble, Sydney

A body has been found in northern NSW where a man went missing after his car was swept away in floodwaters.

The body of a man who went missing after his car was swept away in floodwaters in Northern NSW has been found.

Emergency services were called to a property at Limpinwood, west of Murwillumbah following reports a vehicle was in the water about 9.30pm on Saturday.

Police found a white ute had been swept away about 400m downstream in floodwater.

The 53-year old man’s body was found about 1pm on Monday following a multi-agency search of the area.

It is understood he had been at a wedding rehearsal before he attempted to cross a causeway in the ute.

On Sunday, Tweed-Byron Police District Detective Inspector Matt Woods told media the man’s ute was found unoccupied shortly after he went missing.

He said a storm cell that passed through the area on Saturday night had dumped a huge amount of water in one area describing the conditions as “very dangerous.”

The two women were seriously injured. Picture: Channel 7

Two women in Sydney were crushed by a fallen tree as wild storms battered the region and wider NSW over the weekend.

The women, aged 54 and 70, became trapped beneath the large tree that toppled at a home in Pymble, in Sydney’s upper north shore, just before 4pm on Sunday.

It reportedly took firefighters more than an hour to free the pair from beneath the tree.

The 54-year-old suffered injuries to her shoulder, chest and leg, and the 70-year-old had back injuries.

Both were transported to North Shore Hospital in serious conditions.

A man in his 60s was also hit by the tree but suffered only minor injuries.

The incident happened on the back-end of a week of storms which have lashed much of coastal NSW.

A NSW Ambulance spokeswoman told Channel 7: “Given where they were standing and the limbs of the branches, they were very lucky”.