{"id":783375,"date":"2026-07-06T07:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783375\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:19:30","slug":"collision-with-a-moose-on-the-a-40-in-champlain-mauricie-death-of-the-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783375\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision with a moose on the A-40 in Champlain, Mauricie: death of the driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his sixties lost his life after his vehicle collided with a moose in Champlain, in the Mauricie region.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were notified late Saturday night, around 10 p.m., of the collision that occurred at kilometre 221 of Highway 40, near Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve-de-Batiscan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver, a man in his sixties from the Quebec City area, was traveling westbound when he collided with the animal. Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead,\u201d said Sergeant Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Deshaies, spokesman for the S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (SQ).<\/p>\n<p>There was also an adult passenger in the vehicle, but her injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation took place during the night to determine the exact causes and circumstances surrounding this sad event,\u201d said the SQ spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his sixties lost his life after his vehicle collided with a moose in Champlain, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-783375","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\/783375","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=783375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}