Woman Dies After Vehicle Rolls Into Icy Water
Monday, October 30, 2006 at 14:14
La Ronge RCMP continue to investigate a fatal rollover which claimed the life of a local woman yesterday afternoon on Highway 915.
RCMP spokesperson Heather Russell says the vehicle was traveling on the Stanley Mission road in the late afternoon, when it lost control and rolled into a ditch with water in it.
Russell says a 50-year-old male passenger was able to free himself from the vehicle, but he became trapped under ice that formed in the ditch.
He then managed to break through the ice, but he wasn’t to save the female driver.
The victim has been identified as 55-year-old Louisa Torrence of La Ronge.
The Mounties say alcohol and weather conditions have been ruled out as possible causes of the rollover.