Speed would have played an “undeniable” role in the accident in which a 16-year-old teenager perished this weekend in Montreal, a tragedy that occurred on a road qualified as a race track by the neighborhood.
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“Given the damage, the rolls that have been made, we are not in the 75, 80 km / h. We forget that, slice Pierre Bellemare, collision scene reconstructionist. We are really in excessive speeds.
“It’s undeniable,” he insists.
Around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, the police were called to Bord-du-Lac Road, in the Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève borough, for a damaged vehicle.
According to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), the driver lost control of his car before hitting a low wall, in a section where the speed limit is 40 km/h.
The vehicle hit a low wall before coming to an end near a post indicating that the speed limit is 40 km/h.
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The three passengers, two 18-year-old men and a 16-year-old boy, were transported by paramedics to hospital. The youngest succumbed to his injuries. His older brother is one of the two surviving passengers.
Charges of dangerous driving causing death could be brought against the driver, said Monday the SPVM, which has still not confirmed which of the two young men of 18 years was behind the wheel.
Racetrack
The street where the drama took place is also known to the neighborhood for being the scene of constant speeding, in particular because of its unevenness.
“Up to five times a week, I can hear cars passing by and they are going above 140 km/h, says a resident met by The newspaper who, like his neighbours, prefers to keep his name silent. If I work in front of my house, it’s like watching a Formula 1 race.
“It is sad. It’s tragic, adds another citizen. It doesn’t matter if you put up signs, speed bumps, or whatever. You have to educate people.”
A stone’s throw from the site of the accident that claimed the life of a 16-year-old teenager, in the borough of L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, a speed bump used to slow down traffic was recently removed.
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A stone’s throw from the crash site, a speed bump had recently been installed, but for some unknown reason it was removed.
The borough declined to comment due to the ongoing investigation.
For its part, the Montreal police were unable to indicate in a short time if the place of the tragedy is known to its agents.
Nothing reassuring
This new tragedy is in addition to the many deaths that have occurred on the roads of the province since the beginning of the summer.
“I’ve been to a lot of fatal collision scenes, and then each one is a bit excruciating. Each comes with a grieving family,” summarizes Paul Leduc, who was the boss of the reconstitutionists at the Sûreté du Québec for a dozen years.
“The hardest thing a policeman can do is announce the death of a parent, and when it’s a child it’s even worse,” he says.
