Toronto police say an 18-year-old man is dead after the vehicle he was driving crashed through the ice along a stretch of the city's downtown waterfront.
They say he was initially pulled from the icy waters hours after the Saturday morning crash and was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition, but confirmed his death later in the afternoon.
Police say the Jeep the man was driving collided with a Ford driven by a 32-year-old man 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.