Flooding in Saskatchewan is to blame for the death of a 39-year-old man July 11.
Watrous RCMP said the man was driving a Ford F-350 truck with a 10-year-old male passenger across a rural grid road about four kilometres south of Highway 15.
About 200 metres of the road in the Rural Municipality of Wood Creek was under water after a nearby slough overflowed from the recent flood.
The truck went off the east side of the road and began to submerge. The driver ensured his son got out and swam to safety. Police said the driver also got out of the truck but wasn’t able to reach safety.
The RCMP Underwater Recovery Team located the body of the driver and the truck and both were removed from the water. An autopsy has been ordered and the investigation continues.
The name of the man, from Imperial, Sask., will not be released.
