Woman in critical condition after being hit by falling branch at Montreal-area bus stop

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· Posted: May 10, 2025 7:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

A 76-year-old pistillate is successful infirmary successful captious information aft she was struck successful the head by a falling histrion subdivision Saturday afternoon. 

Urgences-santé paramedics responded to the telephone successful Côte Saint-Luc, a suburb connected the land of Montreal,  at 12:52.

Urgences-santé spokesperson Jean-Marie Dufresne said it happened connected Queen Mary Road, adjacent the country of Macdonald Avenue. 

"She was waiting for the bus," helium said. 

According to Dufresne, the pistillate suffered a superior caput wounded and was taken to infirmary successful captious condition.

Montreal constabulary were besides dispatched to the area.

While constabulary accidental the incidental does not look to beryllium transgression successful nature, officers remained connected the country to assistance successful the lawsuit of a coroner's investigation. 

Ingela Lof, who lives successful the neighbourhood, said she has disquieted astir walking beneath the trees connected her thoroughfare due to the fact that they're old. 

"There's a batch of radical lasting determination by the autobus halt successful the morning," she said. "I locomotion determination and I ever peek up and marque definite thing is going to happen."

Côte Saint-Luc metropolis crews were connected tract Saturday day to trim the remaining portion of the subdivision that broke disconnected earlier successful the day.