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Un coroner relie la mort d’une adolescente à l’absence de ceinture
A 15-year-old passenger died in a truck crash on Highway 40 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, on Aug.
7, 2025.
The truck hit a van in slow traffic near roadworks, then overturned in the highway median.
The coroner found that the teen was probably not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the truck during the rollover.
The coroner said the driver reacted late to slowing traffic, but could not determine why she did not react sooner.
The truck driver, a 20-year-old woman, was injured and survived.
The coroner classified the death as accidental, and prosecutors decided not to charge the driver.
The coroner issued no recommendations.
A coroner linked the death of a 15-year-old passenger in a truck crash to her apparent failure to wear a seat belt.
The crash happened on August 7, 2025, on Highway 40 in Trois-Rivières.
The truck hit a van ahead of it while traffic was slowing near roadwork, then overturned.
The coroner said the truck driver reacted late but that the available evidence could not establish why.
The Crown decided not to lay charges against the driver.
- Who
- A 15-year-old passenger from Baie-Saint-Paul died. The truck driver, a 20-year-old woman, survived.
- What
- A coroner concluded that the teenager’s death was accidental and linked her ejection from the overturned truck to the apparent absence of a seat belt.
- When
- The crash happened on August 7, 2025. The reports were published on October 22, 2026.
- Where
- Highway 40 in Trois-Rivières, near the junction with Highway 55.
- Why
- The truck collided with a van while traffic was slowing near roadwork. The coroner said the driver’s precise reason for reacting late could not be determined.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The truck crashed into a van on Highway 40 in Trois-Rivières and overturned.
Reports on the coroner’s findings were published, stating that the teenager was apparently not wearing a seat belt and that no charges would be laid against the driver.
- Victim
- 15-year-old passenger from Baie-Saint-Paul
- Crash date
- August 7, 2025
- Location
- Highway 40, Trois-Rivières
- Truck driver
- 20-year-old woman
- Coroner
- Karianne Asselin
- Outcome
- No charges were laid against the driver
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What people are saying
The absence of restraint contributed to her ejection during the overturning of the heavy vehicle.
The information gathered points instead to a human factor.
The precise cause of the driver’s failure to react sufficiently early cannot, however, be determined from the available evidence.