UPDATE (8:30 p.m.):
The SIU said late this evening that the body of an 80-year-old man was recovered from the water at 6:49 p.m.
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ORIGINAL STORY (8:15 p.m.)
The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has been called to probe the circumstances surrounding a man who is missing after he drove his vehicle into Georgian Bay in Midland following an interaction with an Ontario Provincial Police officer Thursday afternoon.
According to the SIU, preliminary information suggests that at approximately 3 p.m., a Southern Georgian Bay OPP officer stopped the driver of a vehicle for a suspected Highway Traffic Act violation.
The officer and the man spoke before the man entered the water in his vehicle near Bayshore Drive and William Street. Officers also entered the water, the agency says.
"The vehicle sank and the man did not exit the vehicle," the SIU says in a news release.
The OPP dive team has responded to the scene.
Three SIU investigators and one forensic investigator have been assigned to the case.
