The scene was a hospital bed, the charge was first degree murder following a crash early Wednesday morning on Highway 158 in the Lanaudiere region.
75-year-old Pierre Courtois has been charged with intentionally crashing his car into a tractor trailer.
His ex-girlfriend, 50-year-old Sylvie Deshaies, was a passenger in the car and died.
Provincial police said the car swerved into the truck’s path on Highway 158 between Saint-Alexis and Saint-Jacques, a few kilometers southwest of Joliette.
The driver of the tractor trailer was taken to hospital and treated for nervous shock.
-With files from CTV News