A grieving father towed a smashed-up SUV to Queen's Park Wednesday to press for fixes at a dangerous turn on Canal Road in Bradford where his daughter and grandson died last month.

Tim Read is demanding transportation officials fix the winding, uneven road and install guardrails to prevent more cars from skidding into a canal that flows beside it.

Read's daughter, Cassandra, and her four-year-old son Taylor Grasby died in February when Cassandra lost control of her Toyota 4Runner and it plunged into the icy canal.

The 32-year-old woman had been on her cell phone at the time of the accident. She reportedly made a frantic second call to a friend from inside the vehicle as it was sinking.

Read met with Transportation Minister Harinder Takhar, who promised he would try to hold a joint public forum with Simcoe County officials next month. However, Takhar said the province could not tell the county what to do.

Bradford town officials and local residents have been trying to have the canal relocated for more than a decade, but the plan continues to be bogged down in environmental assessments and funding issues.