A 50-year-old died in hospital after she was struck by a vehicle while cycling on l’Anse-à-L’Orme near Senneville Road on Tuesday at the border of Senneville and Pierrefonds.
Montreal police spokesperson Julien Lévesque said a 911 call reporting the collision was made at 12:15 p.m.
“The driver was going along l’Anse-à-L’Orme Road and hit the cyclist,” he said.
Both the driver, a 29-year-old women, and the cyclist were rushed to hospital for treatment, where the cyclist later died of her injuries.
The driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant.
Collision experts were at the scene Tuesday afternoon working to determine the circumstances leading to the crash.
Witness statements obtained by police indicate the vehicle was heading south on l’Anse-à-L’Orme, while the cyclist was going North. Brabant explained the crash happened after the vehicle, for an unknown reason, continued on its trajectory in a curve hitting the cyclist.
Brabant said officers aren’t ruling anything out and will be looking at whether speed or impaired driving may have played a role in the 11th fatal crash to occur in Montreal so far this year.
The 10th fatal collision happened on Monday, when a 74-year-old woman was struck by a garbage truck in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.
Brabant said the woman died of her injuries Tuesday morning.