Claude Deladurantaye was working at a construction site near the Rivière du Sud, in Montmagny, Que., about 80 kilometres northeast of Quebec City, when he heard a splash.
It was 12:30 p.m. on April 21 and to his horror, he saw a car bobbing in the water. It had run off the highway and plunged into the water with a woman at the wheel.
Josyane Tanguay Pelletier, a 36-year-old notary and lawyer on her way back to Rimouski from a business trip to Montreal, was stranded and he was the only person around.
When he first saw her she was unconscious.
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“Then she woke