A two-vehicle accident occurred on Highway 148 at the intersection with Highway 303 South on Tuesday morning, sending the driver of one car to hospital.
Shawville-Clarendon fire chief Lee Laframboise said the department was called to respond to an accident at the blinking light outside Shawville at 9:38 a.m.
He said the accident occurred when an SUV pulled into the intersection from the south, just as another car traveling eastbound on Highway 148 was passing through the intersection and collided with the SUV.
“They said they stopped, but that they’d never seen [the other car] until it hit them,” he said, sharing what he had heard from the people in the SUV.
The collision sent the SUV into the ditch on the south side of Highway 148, while the car that hit it ended up in the middle of the highway, with significant damage to its front.
The driver of the eastbound car was sent to hospital in an ambulance. Laframboise did not know how serious her injuries were.
He said the driver and passenger in the SUV did not need an ambulance.
THE EQUITY requested more information from the Sûreté du Québec police but did not hear back before publication deadline.
