Mounties investigate fatal crash into lake near Whistler, B.C. [Video]

Mounties are investigating a fatal crash north of Whistler, B.C., after an unclothed man who was found along the side of the road led police to a pickup truck submerged in a lake with one occupant still inside.

The Lillooet-Lytton RCMP say officers were called to check on the man on the side of Lillooet Pioneer Road 40 around 10:15 p.m. on Sept. 7.

While police were on the way to his location, they received an update that a passerby had picked him up and taken him to a nearby resort lodge.

At the lodge, the man said he had been in a single-vehicle crash and the vehicle ended up in Carpenter Lake with one occupant still believed to be inside.

First responders conducted extensive patrols of the lake through the night and eventually located a “small debris field” but no sign of a vehicle, the local RCMP said in …