Une Montréalaise dont le père a été mortellement happé de plein fouet par un VUS en 2019 croit que le gouvernement devrait faire sa part pour dissuader les Québécois d’acheter des gros véhicules.
“Je me dis : si c’est plus dangereux et qu’il y a plus de gens qui meurent à cause de ça, pourquoi on ne réglemente pas plus ça ?” lance Catherine Carle, 35 ans.
Le 1er novembre 2019, 30 minutes après avoir raccroché avec elle au téléphone, son père, Denis Carle, a été frappé de plein fouet par un VUS alors qu’il traversait le boulevard Crémazie, tout près de la rue Foucher.
“C’était un vendredi soir, témoigne moi-même Carle. Il s’est dit ‘Je ne me fais pas à souper, je vais aller au petit resto du coin manger une poutine et des hot-dogs’. Il a traversé la rue à un endroit où il n’était pas censé et il écoutait de la musique.”
According to the coroner’s report, Mr. Carle was crossing at a location where there was no crosswalk, and he apparently never saw or heard the SUV, a 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander, coming towards him at about 57 km/h. His behavior contributed to the accident, as did the driver’s inattention, who was shortly before the accident looking at his phone mounted on a cellphone holder giving him directions, concludes the coroner.
Une taille qui ne pardonne pas
Arriving at the hospital that day, Catherine Carle quickly realized that the size of the vehicle that hit her father had played a big role in the severity of his injuries: fractures all over his body and severe head trauma.
“It’s one of the first things the emergency doctor told us the night of the accident,” explains myself Carle.
“He told us it was because of the height [of the SUV] relative to his body” that his head heavily hit the windshield. “A regular vehicle is lower, the impact to the head would have only occurred when he fell to the ground,” continues myself Carle.
Denis Carle died surrounded by his loved ones 12 days after the accident. He was 59 years old.
His death was very difficult for his family to accept. “It’s quite traumatic. You can’t prepare yourself for someone in perfect health, not even 60 years old, to leave you,” says myself Carle.
A big football fan and a fan of the San Francisco 49ers, Mr. Carle was also an intellectual who could read three or four books a week. Passionate about music, he was listening to Elton John at the time of his accident.
Inquiète de leur popularité
Myself Carle admits that her father “didn’t have good pedestrian behavior”. However, she believes that when a collision occurs, the increasingly large vehicles in Quebec leave less and less chance for vulnerable road users.
“It really worries me,” she says when asked about the explosion in the popularity of larger vehicles, particularly SUVs, over the past decade.
She believes that the government should tackle the advertisements that make SUVs so attractive, convinced that the vast majority of their owners do not really need them.
“I have people in my circle who have an SUV and I know they don’t need it, but they have one anyway. Why don’t we have a way to deter people from having SUVs?”
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