Three young men die in separate road accidents in rural Quebec

Rang 8 in tiny Saint Wenceslas Quebec was the scene of a deadly ATV crash Saturday, one of three accidents which claimed lives in rural Quebec Saturday. (Image Google Street View)

MONTREAL - Three young men have died in separate single vehicle accidents in rural Quebec.

In one accident, a 17-year-old died after losing control of his vehicle on Vauvert Rd. in Peribonka Saturday at about 7 p.m. The accident occurred off one of the main streets in the community of 500, which sits on the north shore of Lac St-Jean.

Later Saturday evening in Sainte-Catherine de la Jacques-Cartier, a town of 6,000 half an hour west of Quebec City, a passenger in his twenties died after a vehicle he was traveling in lost control on a curve on Montcalm Rd. at 9:45 p.m. The other two occupants, the driver and another passenger, suffered serious injuries but their lives are not in danger.

A third man, also in his twenties, died when he lost control of his three-wheeled ATV near 8th Rd. in St. Wenceslas - a rural community of 1,000 which sits 150 km northeast of downtown Montreal - Saturday at about 2:15 p.m.

-With a file from The Canadian Press