Four separate snowmobile outings turned deadly Saturday, Quebec provincial police said.
Police said the first crash occurred around 12:40 p.m. in Mont-Carmel, in eastern Quebec’s Bas-Saint-Laurent region near the St. Lawrence River, where a 57-year-old man died after his snowmobile was struck by a pickup truck at an intersection.
Sgt. Valérie Beauchamp, a spokesperson for the provincial police, said a 47-year-old woman lost control on a marked trail and crashed into a tree at about 5 p.m. in Hemmingford, a community south of Montreal near the U.S. border.
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She later died at the hospital.
Beauchamp said around 6:30 p.m., in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, roughly 400 kilometres north of Quebec City, three men fell through the ice on Lac La Mothe during a ride.
Two men in their 20s survived, while a 49-year-old man from Saguenay was initially missing. Divers recovered his body late Sunday afternoon.
Beauchamp said the fourth crash happened at about 9:30 p.m. in Stanbridge East, in Quebec’s Estrie region southeast of Montreal, where a 47-year-old man died after his snowmobile left the road and landed in a ditch.
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