A driver who narrowly avoided the pileup in which four people died on Highway 440 in Laval in 2019 filmed the seconds before the impact with a camera installed on his vehicle.
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“We heard a series of bangs, very loud. There were explosions too. I looked in my mirror and I saw pieces of metal fly away, ”testified Denis Meunier this morning.
On August 5, 2019, he was driving in the middle lane of Highway 440 with his wife and mother. At one point, we see a series of vehicles slow down in the left lane, so much so that his spouse, Diane Meunier, warns him: slow down.
The Meunier vehicle continues on its way, but barely a few seconds later, we hear on the video the brutal impacts.
In footage shown at the trial of Jagmeet Grewal, charged with criminal negligence causing death, his truck is seen driving in the right lane, moments before it caused the pileup.
MARIO BEAUREGARD/QMI AGENCY
Jagmeet Grewal
The Crown is trying to demonstrate that at the time of the tragedy, the accused was driving at 100 km / h without ever reacting to the line of vehicles immobilized at the height of the ramp to Highway 15.
Gilles Marsolais, 54, Michèle Bernier, 48, Sylvain Pouliot, 55, and Robert Tanguay Laplante, 26, died in this pileup.
Photo courtesy of the Court
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