{"id":511541,"date":"2026-03-03T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:00:23","slug":"six-year-old-dies-after-sledding-accident-at-chambly-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511541\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-year-old dies after sledding accident at Chambly park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old child has died after a sledding accident Monday afternoon at a park in Chambly, as spring break begins in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie region.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called shortly before 3 p.m. to the toboggan hill at Robert-Lebel Park, behind the local arena.<\/p>\n<p>The child reportedly lost control while sliding down the hill and crashed into a pole separating the run from the parking lot, suffering severe head injuries and significant blood loss. The child went into cardiorespiratory arrest during transport to hospital in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 5 p.m. sergeant Marie-Eve Boulanger, spokesperson for the Richelieu Saint-Laurent Intermunicipal Police Board confirmed that the child had died following the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Police secured the area and closed the hill for the rest of the day while investigators worked to determine the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Chambly has previously noted the site is unsupervised and recommends adult supervision.<\/p>\n<p>A coroner\u2019s investigation will also examine the circumstances surrounding the child\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old child has died after a sledding accident Monday afternoon at a park in Chambly, as spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-511541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}