Julien St-Jean

Portage du Fort July 17, 2021

A truck driving south on Hwy 303 near Portage du Fort went off the road and crashed into a nearby house on Saturday morning.

“It was coming towards Shawville from Portage, then it crossed the road and went through a ditch and then it hit the house,” said Shawville-Clarendon Fire Chief Lee Laframboise. “[It] broke the chimney and the chimney landed on the front of the truck.”

Eight firefighters from the Shawville-Clarendon Fire Department responded to the call and removed rubble from the truck. There was only one individual in the truck.

“It was a cement block chimney that busted off of the house, plus it looked like a crack in the foundation,” repeated Laframboise.

Laframboise said he was not aware of any serious injuries that resulted from the crash but the driver was taken by ambulance to the Pontiac Community Hospital in Shawville.