A car rolled into the Hudson River in New York on Wednesday afternoon (Picture: News 12)

A car appears to have been ditched by its driver moments before it rolled into the Hudson River – with the vehicle and its driver nowhere to be found.

The driver is believed to have exited the car before allowing the vehicle to roll into the river around 2pm on Wednesday, surveillance footage showed, according to the Piermont Police Department.

Investigators found tire marks in the snow that led to the end of Piermont Pier.

They have recovered parts of the car, but the actual vehicle itself has vanished.

The driver is also nowhere to be found and investigators have not been able to identify the individual.

Boats and dive teams were seen searching the frigid for hours.

A witness, Martin McIntyre, said he was at the entrance of the pier trying to take a photograph of the scenery on Wednesday afternoon when police did not allow him to go further.

‘The policeman was sitting there in his car, so he advised me that nobody was allowed down there either walking or traveling,’ McIntyre told News 12. ‘He told me then that a car went off the end of the pier.’

An ongoing investigation into the incident is being handled by the police department’s detective unit and the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office

Piermont is a village in New York about 20 miles north of Manhattan.

Anyone with information on the incident is urged to contact the police department.