This is frightening.
A 23-year-old from Ontario, Canada was following a route on her car’s GPS system in the dark last Thursday night in the town of Tobermory.
The Canadian Press report that it was a foggy night and rain was making visibility difficult for the driver, and she approached a boat launch on Little Tub Harbour around midnight.
The severe fog impeded her vision, and she continued to drive down the boat launch.
Constable Katrina Rubinstein-Gilbert said that the woman’s wrong turn had some pretty dramatic consequences.
“How the launch works, it’s not an airborne thing. It’s not ‘Dukes of Hazzard.’ It kind of goes off the road and the launch just drops all of a sudden. So she would have been driving on the road, and then all of a sudden just dropped and hit water”.
Scary.
The car stayed afloat long enough for the woman to roll down the window, grab her purse and swim about 30 metres to shore.
She contacted police, who later towed her completely totalled car out of Lake Huron later on.
Of the young woman, Rubenstein Gilbert said:
“She’s in really good spirits,” she said. “Of course a little embarrassed, but taking it all in stride.”
