Portland Man Pulled From Car Submerged In Columbia River Dies

A Portland man died after he was extricated from a car that was submerged in the Columbia River Sunday morning (January 24), according to KOMO.

Portland police said they got a 911 call from a passerby. They told officers they saw tire marks in the grass and headlights in the water. Crews with Portland Fire & Rescue found the car underwater near Marine Drive, reporters said.

Rescue divers with the Port of Portland were able to pull the man out the submerged car and to the surface. Fire & Rescue crews started CPR on him before he was taken to the hospital. Authorities said he did not survive.

They identified the man as 48-year-old Eddie Larson of Portland. "Police said Larson was on his way to work when the car 'left the roadway and veered down the hill,' going down the embankment and into the river," KOMO reported.

Police are still investigating how the car went into the river. They said there's no known witnesses to the crash, as well.

This comes after officials and authorities found the body of a nurse whose vehicle got buried by a Columbia River Gorge landslide earlier this month. Last year, authorities found a teenage girl dead in a car submerged in Skagit River.

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