One dead after car crashes into tree in Dollard-des-Ormeaux

One person is dead and two others injured after a collision in Dollard-des-Ormeaux on Montreal’s West Island.

Residents were woken up around 3:45 a.m. Saturday when a vehicle crashed into a tree. Several people called 911 to report the crash on Spring Garden Street, near the Fabre Street intersection.

“When the police arrived on the scene, first responders were already extricating the people who were trapped inside the vehicle. There were three men in the vehicle, one driver and two passengers,” said Officer Caroline Chèvrefils, spokesperson for the Montreal Police Service (SPVM).

One of the passengers, a 26-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and the other passenger, both 27, were taken to hospital. Their condition was not immediately known.

“The car may have been travelling at high speed before crashing into a tree. A perimeter was set up to protect the scene for investigators from the Collision Investigation Unit so that they could analyze it and try to understand the exact circumstances of the event,” said the SPVM spokesperson.

With files from The Canadian Press