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JOLIETTE — A woman in her 20s was in critical condition Sunday after the vehicle she was driving left the road on Highway 31 in the northerly direction in Joliette and crashed into a statue.
At about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, emergency services were called to the scene of a vehicle that had left the road and rolled over.
Only a single vehicle was involved.
For reasons as yet unknown, the driver lost control of her vehicle, which then collided with a statue situated at the centre of a roundabout slightly north of the Highway 158 interchange.
She was taken to hospital with serious, and possibly life-threatening, injuries.
“Because she could have had been impaired by alcohol, steps were taken to obtain blood samples,” Sûreté du Québec (SQ) spokesperson Élizabeth Marquis told La Presse Canadienne.
A passenger in the vehicle, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. SQ officers are to meet with him once his condition permits.
An SQ officer trained in accident reconstruction was at the scene Sunday morning to establish the causes and circumstances of the event. Roads were re-opened to traffic at about 9:30 a.m.
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