Car and body of driver recovered from Lake Ontario
The silver Toyota car was driving northbound along Cherry St. when it deviated and fell into Lake Ontario and lay submerged under about seven metres (25 feet) of water on Thursday afternoon.
Two bystanders had dived in and tried to rescue the driver before the car sank.
One of them, a cyclist, was being treated in the hospital for hypothermia.
Due to low visibility the search efforts had to be postponed for the next day.
Both the driver and the car remained under cold water for roughly 18 hours.
"We are looking to see if there was any driver error, any mechanical failure, maybe a medical episode — any number of different things that could have occurred," Const. Clint Stibbe said.
Stibbe also was of the opinion that speed could be one of the causes of the crash.
Investigations were trying to find out the car’s speed when the accident happened by downloading data from the car's on-board computers.
(Reported by Asha Bajaj)
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