An octogenarian couple who were about to get back into their car after shopping in Virtue Square in Montreal was very seriously injured when he was hit by a motorist on Thursday afternoon in the Saint-Laurent district.
When the emergency services arrived, the 89 -year -old man was in cardiorepiratory arrest. Resuscitation maneuvers were immediately undertaken. The man was transported to hospital in a very critical state.
Her spouse was also taken to the hospital center to treat serious injuries that endanger his life.
At the end of the afternoon, the authorities were still badly explained how the driver was able to capture the two pedestrians.
“We only know that he made a maneuver and that it was during this that the collision occurred,” said agent Mariane Allaire Morin, Montreal police spokesperson.
According to our information, the driver, an elderly man in the sixties, confused the brake pedal with that of the accelerator when he tried to park with recoil in a free space.
The man and the woman had just placed their bags in the trunk of their car and was preparing to get on board when they were sandwiched between their own vehicle and that of the faulty driver. The impact has been very violence.
The place of the collision was protected by a security perimeter and the specialists in accident scene reconstruction were dispatched to the scene to try to establish the circumstances of the drama.
The motorist also had to be met by the investigators to give his version of the facts.
