A 71-year-old man from La Tuque lost his life Thursday evening after being found unconscious near a snowmobile on a trail in Mauricie early in the afternoon.
Around 12:45 p.m., police officers from the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) of the regional county municipality of Mékinac, which covers Haute-Mauricie, were called to go to a snowmobile trail in the ZEC of Gros-Brochet, where a man had just been found unresponsive.
According to initial information, the driver of the snowmobile, aged 71, lost control of his machine before going off the road, which ended up hitting a tree.
“There was no direct witness to the event, which had happened for some time – several hours. The only way to access the location was by snowmobile,” the SQ said in a press release Friday morning.
Emergency services, including police, firefighters and paramedics, were rushed to the scene “with the necessary equipment”, and the man was transported to a hospital, but his death was confirmed late in evening, we can read.
This death occurs only 10 days after the death of another snowmobiler in his forties, who allegedly sank in the waters of the Harricana River, in Amos, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, on Christmas Eve.
