Deadly holiday weekend in Quebec as police report fatal crashes, drownings – Montreal | 24CA News
At least 10 folks misplaced their lives on the roads and within the water in Quebec this lengthy weekend because the province celebrated its annual Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day vacation.
Provincial police say 5 folks died following automobile crashes within the Centre-du-Québec, Montérégie and Mauricie areas. They say 4 others are in essential situation.
The incidents embody a motorcyle crash in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough, which left a 30-year-old man in essential situation, a deadly all-terrain automobile crash in Lac-Saint-Jean, which killed a youngster, and a number of other different automobile crashes.
The lengthy weekend festivities started Thursday night and continued to Monday. Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day fell on a Saturday this yr, a lot of the province had each Friday and Monday off, and others had one of many two days.
As for drownings, authorities say a 22-year-old man drowned early Friday night within the Saint-Lawrence River close to Montreal’s Verdun seashore. His physique was pulled from the water simply earlier than midnight by Surete du Quebec (SQ) divers.
Verdun borough mayor Marie-Andrée Mauger stated the sufferer was swimming in a non-surveilled zone of the seashore.
She issued a press release reminding folks to be vigilant, saying, “The river’s current is strong, the shore is rugged, the depth of the water changes suddenly which causes a big variation in water currents, which can be fatal.”
Four different drownings have been reported in the previous few days. A person in his 50s died within the river in Côte-de-Beaupré, close to Quebec City Saturday evening.
Police say he was out alone on a ship that broke down and the person tried to swim to shore. He was not carrying a lifejacket. His physique was discovered an hour later.
The three different drownings embody a 26-year-old in Opasatica Lake in Témiscamingue who went out into the water to swim Friday evening and by no means returned. The SQ discovered his physique the next day.
A 29-year-old died Saturday in Beauchamp Lake in Abitibi after going paddle boarding and not using a lifejacket.
A 15-year-old drowned late Thursday night within the Ashuapmushuan River within the area of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
— with recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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