Bystanders rushed to help two women who were pinned underneath a vehicle after it crashed into a bus shelter on Montreal’s South Shore Friday morning.
The crash happened at around 11:45 a.m. near the corner of Victoria Avenue and Saint-Louis Street in the Longueuil’s Lemoyne district.
Longueuil police said the driver of the vehicle, a woman in her 70s, made a “bad manoeuvre” with her vehicle and drove into the shelter.
The glass panes were shattered in the car crash. (Longueuil police)
Renaud Pilon, a spokesperson for the ambulance service that serves Longueuil, CETAM, said an 18-year-old woman was caught completely underneath the vehicle after the crash, while a second woman, aged 19, had her leg stuck.
Bystanders who saw the crash rushed to help. About four or five of them helped lift the vehicle off the two women before first responders arrived, Pilon said.
A third woman, aged 27, …