Woman rescued after vehicle crashes into Ontario cottage country lake [Video]

Ontario Provincial Police in Peterborough County say officers rescued a 45-year-old woman after her vehicle crashed into Rice Lake early Tuesday morning.

Officers were dispatched to the lake shortly after midnight after a witness reported seeing an SUV driving at full speed off Wood Duck Drive east of Bailieboro, Ont., before they ended up in the water. The caller also told police that they had not seen anyone emerge from the vehicle.

Police say three officers quickly arrived at the scene before they commandeered a small boat and paddled it toward the vehicle, using the SUV’s headlights as a beacon.

The officers then went into the water, pulling the woman who was behind the wheel from the vehicle. OPP say she was taken to the shore before firefighters took over treatment.