PORT CARLING — Ontario Provincial Police and emergency services were unable to save the life of a man trapped between his pickup truck and a tree on Saturday morning, July 15.

When emergency services arrived an address on Todholm Drive in the Port Carling area, they found a black pickup truck down a small embankment and a man trapped between the driver's door and a tree, said Harry Baranik, deputy fire chief of Muskoka Lakes Fire.

"It is believed, that the vehicle had either been left in drive or neutral and the vehicle began to roll away," he said. "The deceased attempted to enter the vehicle in order to stop it.

"However, when the vehicle reached the embankment it swiftly travelled down and became lodged. The deceased was caught as the vehicle stopped because a tree wedged the vehicle."