Elderly pedestrian dies in Verdun
A 92-year-old pedestrian has died after being hit by a pickup truck going 5 km/h Thursday in Verdun.
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MarcG 09:02 on 2025-12-20 Permalink
Sad. That’s a tricky corner that the city did a lot of work on recently to improve safety. There are several retirement homes and a CHSLD nearby. Given that it was the middle of the day, it seems like the likely culprit is poor visibility from big trucks.
Kate 19:56 on 2025-12-20 Permalink
I lived in Verdun when I was a kid, but I never knew that bit of town at all. On Streetview it’s an odd corner, the north side being old‑school Wellington Street with a couple of small brick Protestant churches and a jumble of triplexes and small apartment buildings, the south, a completely suburban vista of a giant gas station and a massive Canadian Tire and Maxi store.
I’m not surprised that the suburban side could prove fatal to an elderly person from the other side of the street.
MarcG 08:11 on 2025-12-21 Permalink
I believe it was actually one block over on this corner where the accident happened. That corner of the neighbourhood is a real mess architecturally for sure. It was even odder when the old Pointe-Ste-Charles houses on May street were still standing.
Kate 17:25 on 2025-12-21 Permalink
I took some photos of May Street before it was demolished. The quaint houses faced the blank concrete wall of the highway, so it wouldn’t have been too pleasant a place to live, but there were some unique façades and I wished I could see the interiors of a few before they were swept away by progress.
MarcG 09:50 on 2025-12-22 Permalink
I went to visit one when it was for sale and you could see the faces of the people in their cars on the 15 from the 2nd storey windows.
Ian 18:54 on 2025-12-22 Permalink
There’s a “penthouse” on Bedford that has the same relationship with the Rockland overpass, but despite bring built over 20 years ago I don’t think it’s ever been occupied.
MarcG 08:40 on 2025-12-23 Permalink
This one on Bates with the boarded-up door and “Condos!” sticker peeling off the windows?