A 36-year-old woman died Saturday after driving off the road on Chemin Cléo-Fournier in La Pêche, in the Outaouais region of Quebec.
Just before 3 p.m., police officers from the MRC des Collines de l'Outaouais responded to a single-vehicle accident on Chemin Cléo-Fournier.
When officers arrived, the woman was in critical condition and was transported to a hospital. She was pronounced dead at Wakefield Hospital.
The road in question was closed to traffic until 10:40 p.m. to allow officers to investigate the scene of the accident, police said.
"Information from the investigation indicates that the driver lost control of her vehicle on a bend and skidded to a severe side impact with a mature tree across the ditch," said police in a statement. "All airbags deployed, but unfortunately were not effective on impact."
The circumstances of the loss of control are still under investigation.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on Oct. 30, 2022.
