Shayla Driver died after crashing her car into the McKinley reservoir.

The woman killed in an ice-covered reservoir Monday was a burgeoning social worker who had just visited her family.
Shayla Driver, 21, was living in Kamloops but went to Kelowna Secondary School as a teenager. She was returning to Kamloops from her mother's house in McKinley Landing when she lost control of her car and plunged into the McKinley reservoir.
"She was coming back to Kamloops to finish her end of semester at Thompson Rivers University," said Tangie Gensho-rek, Driver's boss last summer.
"I'm a little shocked. She's so young."
Driver was heading east on McKinley Road just after 1 p.m. Monday. She may have hit an icy patch on a hairpin curve around the reservoir. Her Buick sedan slid left over the embankment and rolled, crushing the roof and breaking the windows.
The car was upside-down as it sank through the ice.
The narrow, winding road is the scene of many crashes, say residents, including a car that drove off the road into the reservoir in November 2009.
A woman trapped in the partially submerged car was saved when Const. Jennifer Hunter broke the vehicle's back window and helped pull the shivering woman to shore.
The city of Kelowna plans to blast the rock face to widen the road in 2013, said Coun. Mohini Singh, who lives in McKinley Landing. She planned to ask staff last night to investigate stop-gap measures to make the road safer before then.
"My idea is to widen the road or put up concrete barriers, but I don't know if they'd impinge on GEID (Glenmore Ellison Irrigation District) land," she said.
"This is a huge tragedy. We all have children. I drive the road twice a day. I've driven off the road not far from where this happened."
Rescuers tried in vain to haul the Buick out with a rope Monday. Firefighters later put on cold-weather gear and attached a line to the car. A tow truck pulled it onto the road and firefighters cut open the car to reach Driver. She sat unconscious in the driver's seat with her seatbelt on.
Forty-five minutes passed from the crash to the ambulance's arrival at Kelowna General Hospital. RCMP announced she was dead two hours later.
A woman travelling behind Driver on McKinley Road said Driver's car was pulling ahead of her as they headed toward Glenmore Road.
"She was traveling faster than I was," said the woman, who gave her name as jjgreenacre in an on-line forum. "I don't believe though that her speed was excessive but . . .
after a mishap with black ice years ago, I know to go below posted limits in some areas."
The limit along the dangerous stretch is 30 km/h. Locals told police they often drive slower than that, said RCMP Const. Steve Holmes. He wonders why barriers haven't been erected there.
The woman following Driver agrees.
"This tragedy could have been avoided by guardrails. It angers me to know that I will forever live with the regret of not being able to get her out of her vehicle," jjgreenacre said.
Driver started a youth-support program in Kelowna and had just completed a human-services diploma at TRU. Genshorek hired her as a research assistant last summer to help compile a support-service inventory. She interviewed people who support the homeless or people at risk of homelessness in Kamloops.
Driver began working toward her degree in social work in September.
"She had a very bright future in social work. She was a very kind and concerned citizen. She was aware of a lot of issues homeless people face, and youth particularly," Genshorek said.
"She really stuck out as someone who wanted to help out in the community."