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The girl was riding in a stroller that her mother pushed her on Wednesday morning when the couple was hit by a car that was making a turn at the corner of Fleury St. E. i des Récollets Ave.
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Linda Gyulai • Montreal Gazette Carla Gutierrez crosses Fleury E. Street on Montreal’s Avenue des Récollets on Wednesday with her three-year-old daughter, Kelie, in a pram and with her 12-year-old son, Ricardo Alexis next month. . A two-year-old girl died Wednesday morning after a car dragged her stroller for several meters while making a turn at the intersection. “We need a pedestrian light,” Gutiérrez says. Photo of Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette
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The intersection where a two-year-old girl was hit by a car and died during rush hour Wednesday morning north of Montreal was a tragedy she hoped would happen, local residents say.
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The girl was riding in a stroller being pushed by her mother when the couple was hit by a car spinning on the corner of Fleury St. E. i des Récollets Ave. around 9 in the morning. The car dragged the stroller for several meters. . The minor was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, but succumbed to her injuries. Her mother was treated by paramedics for injuries to her upper body.
“You’re around the corner for 10 minutes and you’ll hear screams and horns five times,” said Vickie, a mother of eight-year-old twins who didn’t want to give her last name. The family lives on the corner of Fleury and des Récollets. The mother said many cars parked near the intersection have been hit by vehicles making a mandatory turn from Des Récollets to Fleury.
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One problem is that the intersection has no pedestrian light, Carla Gutierrez said as she crossed the intersection with her three-year-old daughter, Kelie, in a pram and next to her son, Ricardo Alexis, who will turn 12 next month. next. Another problem is that the part of des Récollets north of Fleury was changed from two directions to one way less than a year ago, he added. The change now forces all cars coming from the north and south to des Récollets to turn towards Fleury, he said.
“I’m scared and stressed,” Gutierrez said on the news of the fatal crash early in the day. He also has a two-year-old son.
“It’s very dangerous here and cars don’t respect pedestrians,” he said, adding that motorcyclists often break between pedestrians crossing the street in the same green light as spinning cars.
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“We need a pedestrian light.”
Esteban Ceron, who lives on the corner, said he and his dog were almost recently hit by an impatient car and was turning quickly at the intersection. He also pointed out the new one-way street that forces more cars to turn towards Fleury and the absence of pedestrian light. Add rush hour traffic as a factor and you have the elements of an accident, he said.
“I find it a very dangerous intersection,” Ceron said. Many cars break abruptly and some pass at a red light, he added.
Another factor that seemed to make the intersection more dangerous lately, Ceron said, was the closure of Fleury in an easterly direction, just east of the Es Récollets intersection for the past two or three weeks. He and other neighbors said they could not understand why cones were placed to block the south side of the road as no construction work was being done.
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All the residents and businessmen with whom the Montreal Gazette in the area spoke said that they noticed that the cars would turn east towards Fleury from des Récollets anyway, towards the opposite lane or because they ignored the closing of the section in an easterly direction.
City workers, however, had removed all of Fleury’s cones on Wednesday afternoon and reopened the street in both directions.
North Montreal District Mayor Christine Black, a member of the opposition party Ensemble Montréal, is on vacation, a party spokeswoman said. The spokesman added that he understands that the intersection and the work of Fleury are the responsibility of the city and not the municipality.
Black issued a statement after the fatal accident, offering her “condolences to the parents and family of the two-year-old girl.… As mayor, mother and citizen, I am concerned about this event.”
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An accident investigator is investigating what happened, the statement added. The conclusions “will allow us to see if the crossroads should be made safer. Make sure security is a priority for our local government. ”
For Vickie, pedestrian light and one-way traffic are issues to address. But so are driving habits.
“You take the fast-turning cars that drive too close to pedestrians and indifferent pedestrians,” he said, “and you have an accident waiting for it to happen.”
lgyulai@postmedia.com
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