Collision on Route 117 leaves three injured in Rouyn-Noranda

Collision on Route 117 leaves three injured in Rouyn-Noranda

A collision on route 117 leaves three injured in Rouyn-Noranda

The accident involved three vehicles and left three injured. (File photo)

Three people were injured in an accident on Highway 117 on Sunday evening.

The collision took took place around 5:30 p.m. at kilometer 608 of Route 117 in the Rouyn-Noranda sector. Three vehicles were involved.

One ​​of the three people injured, a man in his twenties, sustained serious injuries, but there is no fear for his life.

< p class="e-p">It is a vehicle traveling in a northerly direction. For a reason that remains to be determined, the vehicle would have slowly deviated from its lane to lightly hit a first vehicle, then hit a second, but more violently, explains the sergeant in the communications department of the Sûreté du Québec, Hélène St. -Pierre.

The road was closed for nearly 5 hours, to allow a police officer specializing in collision investigation to come to the scene and analyze the scene, adds the Sergeant Hélène St-Pierre.