Well known for the numerous road tragedies that have occurred there over the years, Highway 148 in Mirabell was once again the scene of a horrific traffic accident that left two people dead in the Laurentian Mountains Monday morning.
The accident, involving a small white car and a semi-trailer carrying a load of sand, occurred around 8 a.m. at the corner of Rang St. Vincent Street and Highway 148, which is also known as Arthur Sauvé Road.
The blow was extremely strong.
As a result of the impact, both cars flew into a ditch on the side of the road. The 45-year-old woman driving the small car died, as did the truck driver, who was reportedly crushed in his hut and then buried under the sand he was transporting. The last one was 63 years old.
MAXIM DELAND/QMI AGENCY
Route 148 was completely closed to traffic between Rue Belle Riviere and Rue Saint-Simon for the purpose of the police investigation.
“I cry to see more lives being lost here. I cry to see this happen again and again and that our governments do nothing to solve this problem,” thundered a Mirabel resident who lives a stone’s throw from the site of the tragedy.
“We are no longer counting the number of deaths on this road (148). We need action, and it is urgent. Stop talking and act!” he thundered.
MAXIM DELAND/QMI AGENCY
This will be at least the fourth and fifth death on the just eight-kilometre stretch of Route 148 in Mirabell since the end of May.
The situation was also condemned by several residents in an article in the Journal de Montréal published at the end of June.
A spokesman for the municipality said the city was “increasing the number of requests to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility (MTMD) so that areas considered dangerous can be secured.”
For its part, MTMD insisted that “every accident is one accident too many” and that two intersection reconstruction projects are currently “in the pipeline.”