{"id":512175,"date":"2026-03-03T19:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:14:14","slug":"boy-6-dies-after-head-injury-on-sledding-hill-east-of-montreal-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512175\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 6, dies after head injury on sledding hill east of Montreal \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAMBLY \u2013 A six-year-old boy has died after he suffered a severe head injury on a sledding hill Monday afternoon east of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Richelieu\u2014Saint-Laurent police say they received 911 calls shortly before 3 p.m. about an injured child at Robert-Lebel park, near Chambly, Que.<\/p>\n<p>The child was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a70ce3559c191fc2b86d67jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"2030\" data-pswp-height=\"1187\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a70ce3559c191fc2b86d67jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Quebec's provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQuebec&#8217;s provincial flag flies on a flagpole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release details about how the boy injured his head.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner has taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/newslettericons-jenz24.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Jen Zoratti | Next\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Municipal officials in Chambly have closed access to the sledding hill until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMBLY \u2013 A six-year-old boy has died after he suffered a severe head injury on a sledding hill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-512175","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\/512175","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=512175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}