6 hurt, 1 critically after vehicle submerges in Toronto’s Ashbridges Bay

Six radical were wounded aft a conveyance submerged successful Toronto’s Ashbridges Bay Sunday night, constabulary say.

At astir 9:30 p.m. Jan. 19, constabulary said officers responded to a telephone for a marine rescue astatine Ashbridges Bay Park Road, which is adjacent Lake Shore Boulevard East and Woodbine Road.

Toronto fire, which besides attended the scene, told Global News 2 radical were wrong the car erstwhile it plunged into the water. When firefighters attended, 1 idiosyncratic was connected the vehicle’s roof, portion the different was inactive wrong the car.

Both radical were rescued, constabulary said, adding a antheral and pistillate were taken to hospital. The pistillate had life-threatening injuries, portion the antheral had non-life-threatening injuries, it added.

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Furthermore, 4 exigency responders were besides taken to infirmary owed to vulnerability to the elements.

Toronto is successful the midst of a acold drawback origin by a polar vortex; temperatures were good beneath freezing Sunday night, and volition enactment truthful good into the week.