One man was sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries after his vehicle went off the road engulfed in flames on Rte. 301 Saturday morning.
The accident occurred on the west side of the highway just north of Portage-du-Fort. Campbell’s Bay-Litchfield Fire Department captain Alain Dubeau said when his department responded to the call around 9:30 a.m., Sureté du Québec was already on scene and the man had been extracted from the vehicle.
“The occupant of the vehicle was already taken out by some bystanders, and the vehicle was totally on fire. We put it out, and the occupant was taken away in an ambulance with [ . . . ] burns to his body,” he said.
Dubeau said the department heard an account of what happened from one of the bystanders who witnessed the event happen.
“Somebody who was following him said the vehicle was on fire as he was driving. He went in the ditch and then flipped over, and then some bystanders pulled him out.”
Dubeau confirmed that there was a single occupant in the vehicle, and that the crash involved no other vehicles.
“It’s just a good thing people were close and they were able to help him get out,” Dubeau said.
SQ spokesperson Sgt. Marc Tessier said on the morning of Oct. 20 that the victim suffered “significant” burns that constituted a life-threatening injury, and that status had not changed as of that morning. He said the investigation into the crash is ongoing.
