10 killed in Quebec accidents on weekend

At least 10 people were killed in traffic accidents in Quebec on the holiday weekend, including two teenagers whose parked car was hit by another car in Ste-Anne-du-Sault northeast of Montreal late Saturday.

The 23-year-old driver of the other car is facing two counts of drunk driving causing death.

Quebec provincial police said the 16-year-old girl and her 15-year-old male cousin were trapped in the car when it caught fire after the collision.

A motorcycle crash in a village west of Quebec City has claimed the lives of three people.

The accident occurred Saturday afternoon on Highway 354 about 100 km west of Quebec City.

Provincial police said the driver of one motorcycle came around a turn on the wrong side of the road, resulting in a head-on collision with another motorcycle carrying two people.

The driver of the first motorcycle was 25. The two other victims were in their 50s.

Among other fatalities, a limousine driver was killed Saturday morning when he was hit by a car while standing outside his vehicle in the Plateau Mont-Royal district of Montreal.

The 27-year-old driver of the car that hit him will be in a Montreal court Monday to face a charge of impaired driving causing death.

Two people were killed and five injured in a three-car accident on Sunday, 400 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

Provincial police said a minivan from New Brunswick struck a car heading in the opposite direction on Highway 132 in Val-Brillant.

The car's occupants, both in their 60s, were killed instantly.

Police said the two New Brunswick residents suffered multiple injuries, but their livesare not in danger. A third vehicle crashed into the first two immediately after the collision. Three people in that vehicle suffered minor injuries.

An eight-year-old boy was killed while playing on the road in Matane, on the Gasp Peninsula on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.

Police said the boy was playing on a skateboard Saturday afternoon when a car leaving its parking spot ran into him. They said the female driver will not be charged.

A 50-year-old man was killed Saturday evening when he was crushed by his all-terrain vehicle near Gracefield in western Quebec.