Video shows cars fall into St. Lawrence River during ice racing event near Montreal
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A dramatic video posted on social media shows two cars falling through the ice on the St. Lawrence River at a racing event south of Montreal.
A dramatic video posted on social media shows two cars falling through the ice on the St. Lawrence River at a racing event south of Montreal.
Footage of the accident from the weekend has been shared widely online since Saturday. The incident happened during the Kahnawake Ice Racing Series in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake.
Footage from a dash camera inside one of the cars that went under the ice shows how the event unfolded.
The drivers of the vehicle that captured the footage quickly got out of the sinking car. The driver, Patrick Renaud, was captured on video walking on top of the hood of the car to get to safety. Vincent Noel was the second driver who plunged into the river.
Drone video also captured the frightening scene from the sky.
Bryar Lawrence, the president of the ice racing event, wrote on Facebook that everyone made it safely out of their cars. "No one was hurt," he wrote in the online post.
"We all know the risk we take as soon as we get on that ice and everyone understands this sport we love, comes with these types of risk."
