Twenty-three year old James Castonguay of Très-Saint-Rédempteur faces charges in connection with an October 3, 2009 accident that clamed the life of 18-year-old Catherine Blanchemance of Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot.
Castonguay’s preliminary hearing is set for August 25 and 26 in a Salaberry-de-Valleyfield courthouse.
Castonguay is out on bail while awaiting trial.
The accident that occurred on a warm but rainy Friday night last fall at Chez Maurice in Saint- Lazare left staff and patrons shaken.
According to employees from Chez Maurice who spoke with reporters the day after the accident, Blanchemanche had allegedly gone to the club with her boyfriend and friends to see the band Young Soul.
Chez Maurice owner Richard Chartrand said his employees told him a slender, blond young woman had left the bar alone at close to 2:30 in the morning.
Witnesses at the time said she may have argued with her boyfriend before leaving the bar.
No one knew her whereabouts until a distraught patron ran into the club.
“A man ran in screaming that someone was dead next to his truck” Joël Lalande, a doorman, had said the following day. “I went and saw a woman lying on the ground and called 911.”
The young woman had suffered what appeared to be severe head injuries.
Trial pending in hit and run tow truck death
- Publié le 3 Août 2010
- Publié le 1 Octobre 2010
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Kristina Edson
A tow truck driver who was charged with hit and run and leaving the scene of an accident is expected to be in court later this month.
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