Naples driver dead after his car goes airborne, smashes into a canal wall, submerges

A 69-year-old Naples man died in a high speed, single-car wreck in Collier County Saturday night.

The man drove his sedan east at a high speed down 12th Avenue NE, a dead-end road in the area of Collier County northeast of Wilson Boulevard N and Golden Gate Boulevard E. The crash happened shortly after 8 p.m., the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.

The car left the road, launched over a canal, hit the canal embankment, landed in the canal and sunk. The driver was taken to the hospital with critical injuries and died later.

There have been at least 30 fatal crashes in Collier this year.

This article originally appeared on Naples Daily News: Naples, FL man dies after car launches into canal in Collier County