diff --git a/plugins/elements/gstqueue2.c b/plugins/elements/gstqueue2.c
index 144c684b9f..63a56a30cb 100644
--- a/plugins/elements/gstqueue2.c
+++ b/plugins/elements/gstqueue2.c
@@ -2286,6 +2286,25 @@ gst_queue2_handle_sink_event (GstPad * pad, GstObject * parent,
       if (GST_EVENT_IS_SERIALIZED (event)) {
         /* serialized events go in the queue */
         GST_QUEUE2_MUTEX_LOCK_CHECK (queue, queue->sinkresult, out_flushing);
+        if (queue->srcresult != GST_FLOW_OK) {
+          /* Errors in sticky event pushing are no problem and ignored here
+           * as they will cause more meaningful errors during data flow.
+           * For EOS events, that are not followed by data flow, we still
+           * return FALSE here though and report an error.
+           */
+          if (!GST_EVENT_IS_STICKY (event)) {
+            goto out_flow_error;
+          } else if (GST_EVENT_TYPE (event) == GST_EVENT_EOS) {
+            if (queue->srcresult == GST_FLOW_NOT_LINKED
+                || queue->srcresult < GST_FLOW_EOS) {
+              GST_ELEMENT_ERROR (queue, STREAM, FAILED,
+                  (_("Internal data flow error.")),
+                  ("streaming task paused, reason %s (%d)",
+                      gst_flow_get_name (queue->srcresult), queue->srcresult));
+            }
+            goto out_flow_error;
+          }
+        }
         /* refuse more events on EOS */
         if (queue->is_eos)
           goto out_eos;
@@ -2314,6 +2333,15 @@ out_eos:
     gst_event_unref (event);
     return FALSE;
   }
+out_flow_error:
+  {
+    GST_LOG_OBJECT (queue,
+        "refusing event, we have a downstream flow error: %s",
+        gst_flow_get_name (queue->srcresult));
+    GST_QUEUE2_MUTEX_UNLOCK (queue);
+    gst_event_unref (event);
+    return FALSE;
+  }
 }
 
 static gboolean