Woman in Dorval dies on highway

A second woman has died after being hit by several vehicles while walking on a highway in Dorval early Saturday. Like the woman in a wheelchair killed a day ago, she too had been staying at Ullivik, a facility for Nunavik residents in the area.

I have a map and tote board in the blog sidebar which counts pedestrian fatalities, but I don’t feel these incidents belong in that category. The Gazette mentions that there’s been a petition for months against bad conditions at Ullivik. These incidents don’t derive from normal interactions between pedestrians and vehicles. Something is driving these women to suicidal acts, and that’s a whole other thing.