Boy, 3, Floats Toy Truck 12 Kilometers on River

(Vancouver, British Columbia) A 3-year-old boy on a toy truck, Demetrius Jones, wandered off unnoticed from his family at a camping park in northeastern B.C.

The boy was lost, wearing just a diaper and a T-shirt.

Campers joined Fort St. John RCMP in a full-scale search of the park to find him.

Don Loewen spotted the boy more than two hours after he went missing while searching the river with four other men in his boat.

"We just kept going down the river watching all the log jams and keeping our eyes out for any sign of the car or the boy," Loewen told CTV British Columbia.

"We spotted something sitting on the east banks that looked like some rocks or an eagle or something."

What the men believed were rocks were actually the black tires of the overturned toy truck sticking out from the water.

"And what we thought was an eagle or something was the little boy's blond head sticking up there," he said.

Jones was kneeling on all fours on top of the car, sitting in about three metres of water, according to Fort St. John RCMP.

"He was wet from his knees down, and his hands were wet, but this torso was okay," Loewen said.

Demetrius had traveled 12 kilometers in two hours on the swift-moving Peace River. Interestingly, it happened on his third birthday.

According to RCMP Constable Jackelynn Passarell, "He was very excited to see the police."