A man in his fifties died Friday evening following a collision near Matchi-Manitou, in the Vallée-de-l’Or, in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
At approximately 8:30 p.m., emergency services were called to an off-road road near Highway 117. The collision involved a side-by-side vehicle.
“The driver, a man in his fifties, was transferred to a hospital where, unfortunately, he was pronounced dead,” said Frédéric Deshaies, spokesman for the Sûreté du Québec (SQ).
“For a reason that remains to be explained, the driver would have lost control of his machine before colliding with a tree,” he explained.
An SQ collision investigator went to the scene to analyze the scene and better understand the causes and circumstances that caused the crash.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
