Hit-and-run fatal in Pointe-Calumet: a true horror scene, describe witnesses

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Monday, 31 July, 2017 11:04

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POINTE-CALUMET | residents of the neighborhood where a fatal accident Sunday in Pointe-Calumet, in Laurentides, have had to face the horror.

In the middle of the afternoon, on Sunday, police chased a car driving erratically, before it was lost to view because of its high speed. The young man at the wheel, accompanied by two passengers, has completed his mad dash after having killed a pedestrian and rammed a Hydro-Québec pole.

The young very bad driver and his two passengers, a man and a woman, have been arrested, and the Office of the independent investigations is seized of the inquiry to shed light on this event.

Several witnesses came on the scene, where they had a true vision of horror, to the extent of the tragedy that had just occurred.

“All of a sudden, we hear a noise quite hellish because it was on the electric pole, the tree, all that… It starts running and when one arrives, one sees that the operator wants to save, then my wife, my son shout: “He wants to save himself! He wants to save himself!’. The guy goes to the park, a little further,” said TVA New Guy Chagnon, who lives near the place where the accident occurred.

Arrived on the scene, Mr. Chagnon has seen things that could haunt him for a long time.

“When I opened the door, he was there. You could see just a body between the two. At the beginning, it was thought even that was a small child that was taken… The people [in the car] were all bloody”, he continued. Under the force of the impact, the body of the victim has effectively been split in two.

His son, party to the prosecution of the driver fugitive on foot, “did not dare too much, too” to intervene, the man he had pursued since he too was covered in blood.

The young passenger was in a state of “hysterical”, “in a panic, in shock”.

“There was flesh on it, so it was not so pretty to see, but she was still conscious,” said Claude Bergeron, the wife of Mr. Chagnon, who also visited the scene of the accident. Helped other women who accompanied her, they have tried to clean it and soothe.

“It is a horror film, finally. We see it just on tv, not seen it in real life, we would never think to see it in real life,” continued the resident of the area.

“She said that the driver was drunk, they were on the party and that they had ripped off the head of someone.”

The young people who were in the car could, in fact, an open-air disco well known in the area.

“I don’t want to accuse the Beach Club because they are not responsible for the actions of youth, but let’s say there is a lot of incitement,” concluded the lady.

According to several witnesses, the vehicle at fault was travelling at over 100 kilometres per hour, in a residential area where the speed limit is 40 km/h.