Woman presumed drowned after vehicle plunges into river in Kamloops, B.C.

KAMLOOPS — A woman is presumed drowned in the British Columbia Interior after the vehicle she was driving left the road and went into a river.

Mounties say the crash happened Sunday around 6:21 p.m. when the vehicle driven by a 24-year-old woman entered the North Thompson River in Kamloops near Schubert Drive and Birch Avenue.

Police say three bystanders jumped in and rescued a 21-year-old passenger from the water that was “running high and was fast-moving.”

However, police say the driver could not be rescued before the current carried the vehicle downriver where it sank.