About 50 residents are isolated and a driver is in hospital after a small landslide broke a culvert leaving a gaping hole in a road in Wentworth-Nord last night in Quebec’s Laurentides region.
1 driver sent to hospital with minor injuries
About 50 residents are isolated and a driver is in hospital after a small landslide broke a culvert, leaving a gaping hole in a road in Wentworth-Nord on the night of Sunday to Monday in Quebec’s Laurentides region.
The landslide is likely the result of heavy rain over the weekend, said the region’s director of public security Jean Brazeau.
The driver was sent to hospital with minor injuries after their vehicle fell into the three-metre-deep hole on du Domaine Street. The opening is about four metres by four, said Brazeau.
Part of the street was washed out, cutting off several homes from the rest of the town.
A rescue team from Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts was able to reach the area by zodiac and is door-knocking to alert affected residents along Grand Lac Noir.
Brazeau said repairing the road should take officials the entire day.
With files from Radio-Canada’s Karine Bastien
