An owner of the snow-removal truck that struck and killed a 50-year-old man in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce says the driver told his supervisor he did not know he hit anyone until a driver behind him told him something was stuck under the truck.
"He was making a lefthand turn on a green light, and he did not see, at all, the pedestrian," Nancy Boisier, co-owner of Transport E Racine, told CTV Montreal following the overnight incident on Monday.
"He only realized something was wrong when the driver behind him said something was under the truck."
The supervisor also told her the the truck's windows were clean and that the driver had good visibility.
The truck driver had been making a left-hand turn from Sherbrooke St. onto Girouard Ave. when he struck the pedestrian, according to police.
The truck is owned by a company contracted to clear snow. NDG borough does not believe the private contractor was cleaning snow in the borough when the accident happened, as the man crossed Sherbrooke St. near Girouard Ave just after midnight on Monday.
An investigation into the tragedy has been opened.