A man is dead and another man is under arrest after a serious collision in Verdun Friday evening.
Montreal police say they received 911 calls at around 7:30 p.m. reporting a collision involving multiple vehicles near the intersection of Bannantyne and Brown avenues.
When officers arrived, they found a 55-year-old man who was in one of the vehicles that was hit. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sabrina Gauthier, a police spokesperson, said that after his vehicle was struck, it rolled over and hit a tree.
The driver of a small pickup truck, a 30-year-old man, was arrested at the scene and sent to hospital to be treated for injuries that are not life-threatening. Police say alcohol or drugs “may have been involved” in the collision.
The pickup truck also struck a parked vehicle at the scene of the crash, according to police.
Paramedics and firefighters were also called …