A 55-year-old pedestrian died Wednesday after being hit by a pickup truck in the Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montreal.
According to the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), the accident happened around 1 p.m. on the corner of McLynn Avenue and Bourret Avenue. The driver of a pickup truck was traveling east when, for reasons that are still unclear, she crashed into a vehicle standing on the curb and two pedestrians.
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“We have just received the information that the 55-year-old has unfortunately succumbed to his injuries in a hospital,” said SPVM spokeswoman Jeanne Drouin at the beginning of the evening. The second 58-year-old pedestrian involved in the collision sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
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The 64-year-old driver, for her part, was hospitalized in shock.
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SPVM investigators specializing in collision investigations continue their work to determine the causes of the accident.