Emergency crews work to retrieve a car that crashed through the ice into the Keating Channel in Toronto on Saturday Jan. 20, 2024.Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press
Officials say a person believed to have been the driver of a vehicle that crashed into Lake Ontario along Toronto’s downtown waterfront has died hours after being rescued.
Toronto police say a man taken to hospital in life-threatening condition hours after falling into the icy waters died on Saturday afternoon, but offered no further details.
Police say the vehicle the man was driving collided with another one around 8:45 a.m. near Lake Shore Boulevard and Cherry Street, sending it off the roadway and into the water.
It took more than 3.5 hours for crews to pull the sunken vehicle from a local channel, and no one was found inside when it was recovered.
But police said a man was found “in the same area” more than 40 minutes later and described subsequent attempts to help him as “life-saving efforts.”
They provided no details on what happened between the time the man crashed through the ice and when he was pulled from the water.