Travellers in Northern Ontario may face long waits on the Trans-Canada Highway tomorrow as workers haul a tractor-trailer out of a lake near Kenora.
Police say a truck driver managed to swim to safety Friday after his rig left Highway 17 and sank to the bottom of Energy Lake.
Sgt. Dean Barclay of the OPP in Kenora said the tractor-trailer unit full of plywood left the highway between Kenora and Vermilion Bay.
He said it’s a dangerous stretch of highway with many curves.
Traffic on Highway 17 will be reduced to one lane for several hours tomorrow beginning at 8 a.m. (CDT) as a crane is used to pull out the submerged tractor-trailer.
Police are not identifying the driver or the company which owns the truck.
Energy Lake is “right beside the highway,” said Barclay, who recalled at least two previous incidents in recent years in which vehicles have gone into the lakes which line Highway 17 on either side of Kenora.
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