Man drives 220 miles with dead wife

A Canadian man drove more than 220 miles after his 75-year-old wife died next to him, uncertain whether he could cross the border with her.

Robert Burks police chief of Tonasket, Washington state, said the 71-year-old man did not know what to do, so he kept driving.

The man was on holiday in Oregon when his wife began suffering a medical condition. They were trying to get home to Oliver, British Columbia, but she died near Pasco, Washington.

The Wenatchee World newspaper said the man called vehicle emergency system OnStar, which put him in touch with dispatchers in Okanogan County.

A dispatcher convinced him to stop at the Tonasket police station, about 20 miles south of Canada.

Mr Burks said the woman was taken to North Valley Hospital and pronounced dead. He said police determined her death was not suspicious.