A second child has died and three remain critically injured after a Land Rover crashed into the River Witham at Tattershall Bridge on Sunday afternoon.
A Chapel Hill couple and their seven children, aged from three to 13, had been travelling in the yellow Land Rover along the A152 when it plunged into the river at 3.50pm on Sunday.
The two-year-old girl was pronounced dead at Lincoln County Hospital. She was named as Willow Gresham.
Two of the critically injured children were taken to Boston Pilgrim Hospital and later airlifted to Leicester Royal Infirmary where one of them, an eigt year old girl, died on Monday evening.
The other two seriously injured children who had been taken to Lincoln County Hospital were also later airlifted to Leicester, one to the Royal Infirmary and the other to Glenfield Hospital.
The two parents, said to be Nigel Gresham (36) and his partner Sarah Bolland(30)from Chapel Hill and the other two children were not seriously injured and are believed to have been discharged from hospital.
The area was busy with visitors watching crews competing in the Lincoln to Boston Rowing Marathon.
The Land Rover was heading for Tattershall Bridge when it left the narrow road, crashing down a steep embankment into the river. It is believed that a mini bus carrying canoes was also involved in the accident.
Two men, later named as Colin Dunlop and Martin Lindley, who had been having lunch at the Royal Oak pub nearby dived into the river to try to free the occupants of the vehicle and tried to smash the car windows with a hammer.
Rosemary Burgess (38) of Dogdyke Bank lives nearest to the scene and was out picking blackberries in her front garden when the ambulances began to arrive.
"I didn't hear the crash because it was very windy but heard all the ambulances coming up the road.
"When I went down to see there were men with their shirts off who had jumped in and were diving under.
"People driving really fast use this road as a short cut to the local villages.
Vernon-Roy Stanley (50) knows of the family: "It is tragic and shocking," he said.
"This road is terrible and needs barriers up here but the council just will not do it."
Police divers went into the river on Monday morning to help in the operation to recover the vehicle.
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