MONTREAL – Two people are dead and three others are seriously injured after a car crash on Highway 15 near Napierville in Montreal’s South Shore.
A vehicle was going in the wrong direction on the northbound lane when it struck an SUV around 6:40 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Sergeant Audrey-Anne Bilodeau of the Sûreté du Québec.
The driver of the vehicle going in the wrong direction was killed immediately.
“The car caught fire,” said Bilodeau.
“The driver died on the scene but he was alone in that car.”
One female passenger in the SUV was pronounced dead at hospital.
The three other passengers – two men and one woman in their fifties – sustained serious injuries but their lives are not in danger.
A truck driver driving northbound towards the accident was also treated for shock.
He had attempted to swerve out of the way when he ended up in the ditch of the southbound lane.
The Sûreté du Québec have completely shut down Highway 15.
The southbound lane has since reopened, but Bilodeau said the northbound lane will remain closed for several more hours while they investigate the accident and try to identity the driver.
“We don’t even know who it is,” said Bilodeau. “Even the licence plate is burnt so we can’t identify him yet. We just know that it’s a man.”
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