Boy struck by car dies
An eight-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car in St-Henri on Wednesday afternoon after leaving his day camp.
I know that bit of St-Henri fairly well. There are no traffic lights along that section of St-Ambroise for a long stretch. I sometimes walked down through Sir-Georges-Étienne-Cartier square to the canal, and it was often tricky getting across because nothing impedes the flow of cars. Poor kid.
MarcG 07:29 on 2020-07-23 Permalink
It seems unsual that the accident happened as the driver was coming out of a stop at the stop sign – they couldn’t have been going very fast and you would think they would have seen the kid.
jeather 09:50 on 2020-07-23 Permalink
No traffic lights at all, and stop signs not quite every other intersection, which people often are quite casual about (and some of which are hard to see, especially since you don’t know which intersections will or won’t have a sign — though honestly I think most of the people who are casual about it know perfectly well what they are doing).
John B 13:47 on 2020-07-23 Permalink
There’s 4-way stops at both the intersection where the accident happened and the intersection before. It should be relatively easy to cross.
Kate 13:49 on 2020-07-23 Permalink
John B, it should be, but trust me, it often was not. You know how drivers feel pressured by other drivers to keep things moving. That section of St-Ambroise is a case in point. At rush hour especially, it was often difficult to cross on foot.