6 people taken to the hospital after vehicle goes into the water at Ashbridges Bay: paramedics

Emergency responders search Ashbridges Bay after a vehicle went into the water on Jan. 19. (Jacob Estrin/CTV News Toronto)

Six people were taken to the hospital, including a female in critical condition, after a vehicle went into the water at Ashbridges Bay on Sunday night, say paramedics.

Toronto police confirmed that four of the five other patients injured in the incident were officers who suffered “exposure to the elements.”

Toronto police said they were called to Ashbridges Bay Park Road, which is south of Lake Shore Boulevard East and Lower Coxwell Avenue, at 9:30 p.m for reports of a vehicle submerged in the water.

They said that two people were in the vehicle, one of whom got out, while the other remained inside.

A short time later, police said that the second person was removed from the vehicle and was taken by paramedics to the hospital via emergency run. The other person was also transported to the hospital, they said.

Toronto fire later told CTV News Toronto that they were dispatched to that area at 9:30 p.m. and upon arrival found one person on the roof of a vehicle in the water.

That individual notified first responders that there was someone else trapped inside the vehicle that needed to be rescued, they said. Firefighters removed that person from the vehicle and transferred them into the care of EMS.

The investigation is ongoing.

More details to come...