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Man who died after driving car into St. Clair River identified

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ST. CLAIR COUNTY (WWJ) -- The man who drove his car into the St. Clair River on Sunday night has been identified.

The St. Clair County Dive Team was called out to the river but were unable to save the man trapped inside his sunken Jeep.


Deputies say the man drove through the parking lot of the Voyageur restaurant on Riverside Drive just before 7:30 p.m. before crashing through the railing by the water.

The man, identified by Fox 2 Detroit as 59-year-old Robert Ranusch Jr. of Clinton Township, was pulled from the river at 8:05 p.m. and taken to the hospital -- where he later died.

Police are still investigating the cause of the incident.