Quebec highways see fatal crashes over holiday weekend

 The weekend of celebration took a turn for the worse as nine people died in a span of forty-eight hours in Quebec's highways.

A Surete du Quebec spokesperson says many of the crashes may have been caused by drunk drivers.

A twenty-three-year-old man died on Friday after a head-on crash in Trois Rivieres. On the same night, a speeding accident in St. Pamphile killed an eighteen-year-old driver. An accident involving a motorcyle and a separate crash between a scooter and a taxi also took place that night.

Saturday night saw four deaths in three different accidents. The worst took place in St. Edmond de Grantham, where a pickup truck crashed into a parked car off the highway, killing three of its four passengers. The two other accidents that evening, in St. Pie and Lachute, involved head-on collisions.

All the accidents are being investigated.