Broward detectives investigate driver’s death after car found submerged in canal

Tire marks leading to a Broward canal and a bumper floating in the water are some of the few clues detectives are combing through to solve what led to a man fatally crashing and submerging his SUV.

Shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was alerted to a 2007 Chevy Tahoe submerged in a canal near the 18000 block of Krome Avenue, authorities said. Dive teams and marine patrols searched through the night but found no body in the canal.

The next morning, a family member of Ramiro Gomez-Diaz, 27, went to the crash site and saw a body in the water. Gomez-Diaz was pulled from the canal and pronounced dead…

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