Lubia Estevez and Forest Whitlock, both women in their 60s, died Monday night when they were traveling around 8 p.m. during an intense storm and their car ended up in a ditch before being washed away. It is unclear where they were headed or how they know each other.

Wycliffe Oloo, Watchung resident, walks past his flooded car in the aftermath of flash flooding on Somerset Street in North Plainfield on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Oloo was caught in his caught during the flash flood.

The two women in their 60s were killed after their car was swept into the Cedar Brook during the height of the storm.

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