The incident occurred between 11am and noon on Monday while Mr Hussain’s family – comprising himself, his wife and their two children – were rushing to leave the reserve because of torrential rain.
While crossing the bridge, which was covered in “a good 3 to 5cm of water”, Mr Hussain said that he and his two-year-old daughter, Ashley, fell “into a huge hole”, and into “dark and muddy” water.
Mr Hussain wrapped his arms around his daughter to “stop her from floating away”, but said he “couldn’t feel the bottom” and that if he had let go, the two of them would have been “sucked under the bridge”.
Both he and his daughter managed to get back onto the crossing, and he said in his post that they were “seconds away from drowning”.