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A woman caught the moment an avalanche shot down a cliff and buried her vehicle that was driving along an oceanside highway in Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Lisa Bond and her husband were driving eastbound in a pickup truck at around noon along coastal route 132 when she happened to have been filming the moment three climbers scaling the cliff triggered a sizeable avalanche.

Sûreté du Québec police say the climbers ignored the avalanche warnings in the area after the province got a record amount of snow this past week.

“It happened so fast that by the time I saw it coming, we were already totally covered in snow,” Bond told Global News over the phone on Friday. “I didn’t have time to realize what was going on until we were being pushed on to the cement guard on the side of the highway.

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