2023-07-04 09:15:00
The driver of the lorry involved in a serious collision on Sunday, in which a teenager died and four members of her family were seriously injured, never stopped despite heavy congestion.
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A video having captured the violent shock, of which The newspaper obtained a copy, shows vehicles decelerating for several seconds at the sight of a slowdown on Highway 20, near Saint-Zotique.
However, a few tens of meters from the vehicles which are practically stopped, we see a truck appearing driving at high speed compared to the others, thus hitting a car head-on.
SPECIAL PHOTO COLLABORATION, STÉPHANE BRUNET
The accident claimed the life of a 13-year-old girl. Arrived at the horror scene, the emergency services tried everything to save the girl.
The truck even ended its race much further, almost in the opposite direction of Highway 20.
The sport utility vehicle (SUV) in which the victims were seated, which can be seen in the left rear view mirror of a slow-moving trailer, was trapped by the force of the impact between two heavy goods vehicles.
Infographic Le Journal, photo Sidney Dagenais
A 13-year-old girl died. The other passengers, a man and a woman respectively aged 49 and 44 and two children aged under 10 were seriously injured.
We still fear for the lives of two of them, we learned in the followingnoon on Monday.
On the video, we see many citizens who intervene to help the victims.
The driver of the truck, a 59-year-old man, would not have been able to slow down in front of the traffic, according to what the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) advanced, without specifying the reasons.
The SQ specified that an investigation was underway to determine if there are criminal elements in this accident.
The case began around 4:30 a.m. when a tanker truck veered off Highway 20, not far from the scene of the tragedy. The incident then caused some congestion. The fatal collision occurred around 10:45 a.m.
OTHER COLLISIONS INVOLVING HEAVY GOODS
· August 2014 | A truck hit six cars at the entrance to a construction zone in Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby on Highway 10. A mother and daughter died.
· October 2015 | A truck driver who had never seen the slowdown in traffic in front of him injured four people on Highway 30 in Châteauguay.
· August 2016 | The death of a trucker who burned in a collision involving four other trucks on Highway 40 was preventable, the coroner has concluded.
· May 2017 | Quebec trucker Dunhill Tabanao was sentenced to seven years in prison following a pileup that killed four people on Highway 401 in Ontario.
· December 2018 | Two men lost their lives on Highway 55, in Bécancour, following a semi-trailer struck a line of vehicles in a work zone.
· August 2019 | Four people died following a truck driver hit eight vehicles on Highway 440 in Laval. Fifteen people were injured. The driver, Jagmeet Grewal, is currently on trial.
· October 2019 | A person died following a heavy truck crashed into three immobilized vehicles in a work zone, on Route 155, in Shawinigan.
· Avril 2022 | A grandmother and her two grandchildren, originally from Laval, were killed on Highway 401 in Ontario.
· July 2022 | The driver of a tractor-trailer rammed seven cars on Highway 30. A mother and son were killed at the scene.
· Mars 2023 | A minivan and a 53-foot semi-trailer truck collided on Route 112. The collision left 2 dead, including a 12-year-old teenager, and 9 injured.– With Erika Aubin and Frédérique Giguère
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