Police are blaming flood waters for the death of a 39-year-old man July 11.
Watrous, Sask., 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 recovered the body of the driver and the truck. An autopsy has been ordered.
The name of the man, from Imperial, Sask., will not be released.
