A 30-year-old woman from Calumet Island was sent to hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries following a collision on Highway 148 just west of Quyon early Thursday morning.

MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police spokesperson Martin Fournel said the accident occured around 4:30 a.m.

Fournel said a woman driving eastbound on the highway ran out of gas and managed to pull over on the shoulder next to the road. She had a passenger in the vehicle, a 28-year-old man also from Calumet Island.

Fournel said from what he knows, the two managed to get gas delivered to them, but when they tried to get their vehicle going again, it stalled in the middle of the highway.

“It’s when they started to leave from where they were parked before that the car stalled. Why, I don’t know,” Fournel told THE EQUITY.

“Either way it was stalled in the middle of the road, with no lights on it.”

Fournel said he believes the driver and the passenger were trying to push the vehicle west, back in the direction from which they came, when a transport truck arrived on the scene.

The driver of the truck pulled off the highway to warn the driver and passenger of the vehicle that he could barely see them and easily could have hit them.

The truck driver tried to help the two push their vehicle off the highway, but when they did not succeed he got back in his truck to call a tow truck.

Fournel said it was at that point that another vehicle approached the scene.

Fournel believes the truck driver began flashing his lights to warn the oncoming vehicle that there was a stalled car in the middle of the highway.

Fournel said the oncoming vehicle did slow down, but still collided with the stalled vehicle from behind, hitting the driver that was pushing the car with the front driver’s door open.

“Something is for sure: that third car to arrive was not able to avoid the collision,” Fournel said.

“That’s why the door is folded back,” he added, referring to the picture of the car taken at the scene.

Fournel said one of the first officers on the scene was trained to be able to stop bleeding from bullet wounds, so he was able to make sure the victim was not losing all her blood.

The woman was sent to hospital with a major injury to her lower body. She was the only person injured, according to Fournel.

Fournel said he cannot say the information he was able to share with THE EQUITY was absolutely accurate.

“I’m going with what I have in a partial report,” he said, adding that the police stayed on the accident site until 2 p.m. on Thursday to gather information for the accident investigation, which is ongoing.

A 30-year-old woman from Calumet Island was sent to hospital on Thursday with serious but not life threatening injuries after she was hit by a vehicle on Highway 148 while she was trying to push her stalled car off the road.

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