A single-vehicle crash occurred on Highway 148 in Shawville on Saturday night.
Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Marc Tessier confirmed the crash happened around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, on the stretch of highway between Giant Tiger and Highway 303.
Tessier said three people were in the car, which was travelling westbound at the time of the crash. He said one person fled the scene and that an investigation is underway to locate this person.
He said the two other people in the car were evaluated by paramedics but refused to go to the hospital.
Tessier said the cause of the crash was not determined, but that “it probably could be speeding,” and that no charges were laid.
Shawville-Clarendon fire chief Lee Laframboise, whose department arrived at the scene of the crash before the police did that night, was quite confident of the accident’s cause.
“With the black marks you could tell the car had to be doing tremendous speed,” he said, describing a set of four dark black skid marks the car left on the highway.
“To leave four black marks, that car is going sideways,” Laframboise said.
He said when he arrived at the scene, he found one of the car’s tires in the middle of the highway in front of the old Giant Tiger building, with a tree branch through it, and the car was another 50 or so feet west, in a ditch on the highway’s south side. The car’s hood was another leap further west than that.
Tessier said police returned to the scene Sunday evening to conduct additional checks, and that an investigation of the collision is ongoing.
