Travellers in northwestern Ontario may face long waits on the Trans-Canada Highway on Wednesday as workers haul a tractor trailer out of a lake between Kenora and Vermillion Bay.
Police say a truck driver managed to swim to safety on Friday after his rig left Highway 17 and sank to the bottom of Energy Lake.
Sgt. Dean Barclay of the Ontario Provincial Police says the tractor trailer unit full of plywood left the highway about eight kilometers east of Williard Lake.
Traffic on Highway 17 will be reduced to one lane for several hours on Wednesday beginning at 9 a.m. 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.
