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Woman dies after head-on collision on highway west of Montreal

Police spokesperson Frédéric Deshaies says preliminary information suggests a vehicle heading west on Quebec highway 50 entered the oncoming traffic lane and hit the car the woman was driving.

Provincial police arrest 35-year-old man

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Police collision reconstruction experts were at the scene trying to determine the exact cause of the crash. The highway has since been reopened. (Lynda Paradis/Radio-Canada)

Quebec provincial police say a 51-year-old woman has died after a head-on collision in the town of Lachute, Que., roughly 50 kilometres west of Montreal, early this morning.

Police spokesperson Frédéric Deshaies says preliminary information suggests a vehicle heading west on Highway 50 entered the oncoming traffic lane and hit the car the woman was driving.

She was initially brought to the hospital in critical condition but later died.

Deshaies says police arrested the driver of the second vehicle, a 35-year-old man, for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, though the spokesperson says the results of a blood alcohol level test are still pending and no formal charges have been laid.

Deshaies says it's still unclear what led the man's vehicle to enter the opposite lane.

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