(Montreal) The swerve of a car in which four young people were seated left one dead and three injured, Sunday evening, in Montérégie.
Posted at 7:48 a.m.
The victim is an 18-year-old man. The unfortunate had remained stuck in the carcass after the impact, extrication tools having had to be used to be able to take him to the hospital.
The three other occupants of the car, aged 16 to 19, were also taken to hospital. Their state of health was unknown Monday morning.
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) specifies that 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.