(Montreal) The swerve of a car in which four young people were seated left three dead and one injured, Sunday evening, in Montérégie.
Updated yesterday at 11:20 a.m.
The crash claimed the life of the 19-year-old driver and two 18-year-old passengers. The driver was trapped in the wreckage of the car after the impact, extrication tools had to be used to get him to hospital.
The 16-year-old passenger was also taken to hospital. His life would no longer be in danger, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said Monday morning.
The accident occurred around 7:15 p.m. on Route 239 in Saint-Robert, a few kilometers southeast of Sorel-Tracy. The driver of the automobile would have lost control of it in a curve before making a swerve; the car then rolled over a few times before leaving the road.
The excessive speed hypothesis is considered to explain the tragedy. Accident reconstruction experts have opened an investigation.
Route 239 was closed for a few hours so the crash site could be combed through.