Ashley Schwamm

What's the first thing you see?

No driver inside the charred Mitsubishi SUV.

It appeared they'd escaped the flames.

But when the firefighters checked the passenger side, a different story.

And that's when we found the body.

Could you not even tell if it was a man or a woman?

It was that bad?

How did it appear to you that this car had ended up down there?

You thought it just slid off the road in these conditions?

And kept going?

Firefighters were perplexed.

Where was the driver?

Police officers now on scene were asking the same question.

They notified Detective Sergeant Jason Lloyd and Detective Constable Jeremy Schiffman with the Ontario Provincial Police, also known as the OPP.

I was advised from the sergeant on the scene that they had a dead body inside the vehicle.

And I just asked them to send me some digital photographs to my desk so that I could have a better idea of what it is that they were addressing at the scene.

What's your first reaction when you see these photos?

They thought there might be an explanation for how the body got there.

So the force of the water from the fire hose could have pushed the body into the passenger seat.

Whose car is it?