The pothole was 1.6 metres wide and nearly seven metres long.
MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner is questioning why the Transport Department failed to maintain a stretch of highway northeast of Montreal where a man died last year after his car hit a seven-metre-long pothole.
Horbanov hit the water-filled cavity after moving lanes to avoid a Transport Department vehicle that had stopped to help another car, which had already hit the same hole, the coroner’s report read. The cause of death was described as “multiple cranial and thoracic trauma following a loss of control of his vehicle after a passage through a giant pothole on Autoroute 30 west.”In his report published in April, Dionne noted the segment of Autoroute 30 where the accident occurred was known to be problematic. Police, he said, had responded to a number of flat tires in the weeks leading up to the fatal crash, including up to seven in one day on Feb. 5.
“A major repair job was done March 8 and there was no follow up until the moment of the fatal accident on March 11!” he wrote, noting it took repair crews over 9.7 tonnes of material to fix the hole after the accident.
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