The car (pictured) had been carried for more than 500 yards in a fast-flowing Warwickshire ford before a farmer managed to anchor it to the water's edge.
A 21-year-old woman has died and two others were seriously injured after a tree fell on them as floods and high winds battered the South West.
The three were injured when a large spruce collapsed in Exeter at 11.50pm.
The woman was trapped under the tree and taken to hospital where she later died, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
