Man crashes car into Lake Cd'A
<p>Rescue personnel pull a car from Lake Coeur d’Alene after it crashed off Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive on Saturday afternoon.</p>
COEUR d'ALENE - A 66-year-old Coeur d'Alene man was in critical condition after his vehicle crashed and submerged into Lake Coeur d'Alene near Silver Beach early Saturday afternoon.
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office reported that KCSO deputies responded to a single vehicle crashing into the lake around 1:20 p.m.
The vehicle left the roadway while traveling east on Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive.
Witnesses to the crash told dispatch that a male was trapped in the vehicle.
Once on scene, deputies found that two witnesses to the crash dove into the water and pulled the unconscious driver from the vehicle. Medical and fire personnel arrived within minutes and transported the unconscious driver to Kootenai Health. Sheriff's divers searched the surrounding water but didn't locate anyone else. The man's name was being withheld while KCSO was in the process of locating his relatives.
The Sheriff's Travel Investigation Team is investigating the cause and circumstances of the crash.