Two people are dead after a head-on collision between two vehicles north of Montreal in Saint-Thomas, Que. Saturday afternoon.
Quebec provincial police spokesperson Sgt. Stephane Tremblay says the incident occurred after a first vehicle tried to pass traffic on a curve in the road and hit a second, oncoming vehicle.
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Police were called at around 12:15 p.m. to the crash site, about 70 kilometres north of Montreal in the Lanaudiere region.
The driver and passenger of the first vehicle were pronounced dead at the scene.
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The two people in the second vehicle were brought to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Route 158 was closed for several hours while collision reconstruction experts analyzed the crash scene, but it reopened to traffic Saturday evening.
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