A fifth snowmobiler has lost his life since Friday on Quebec territory.
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The victim, a 45-year-old man, died in New Carlisle, in the MRC of Bonaventure, on Monday afternoon.
The emergency services received a call around 4:30 p.m. for an accident that occurred on private land on rue de Caen.
According to the Sûreté du Québec, the snowmobiler would have hit a blade of snow while traveling on a field. Alone on his machine, the individual was seriously injured during the rollover. The latter had no luck since he was not wearing a helmet. His death was finally pronounced at the hospital.
A coroner’s inquest will be required. Speed may have played a role in the loss of control.
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Even if the month of February is the busiest on the trails, deaths have been increasing for a few days in Quebec.
Elsewhere, a snowmobiler in his sixties died on Sunday after hitting a tree head-on on a trail in Saint-Cuthbert, in Lanaudière.
Several other fatal accidents occurred in the previous days.
On Friday, a man in his thirties lost his life on the handlebars of his snowmobile in Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot, in Montérégie.
Two other snowmobilers also lost their lives in Tring-Jonction, in Beauce-Centre, and in the Mars-Moulin controlled zone, in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, on Saturday.
About ten days ago, a snowmobiler also died in the Sainte-Famille sector, on Île d’Orléans.
Each year, on average, about thirty people lose their lives using a snowmobile.