Calls for caution after diving accident kills man in Laval
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There are calls for caution after a 41-year-old man died over the weekend after he dove into the shallow end of a residential swimming pool.
It’s been nearly two years since William Montpetit’s accident when the 21-year-old broke his C5 and C6 vertebrae after he dove into a swimming pool.
Doctors told him he’d never be able to walk again, but he says he’s getting stronger everyday.
“Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, but you just have to go day by day,” said Montpetit.
On Sunday, Laval police said a 41-year-old man died after diving into the shallow end of a residential swimming pool.
According to the Quebec lifesaving society, there are on average, about 10 diving accidents a year in Quebec that result in either injury or death. And in most cases, the victims are men.
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A doctor with Sacré-Coeur hospital says though deaths don’t happen often, the injuries that can arise from a bad dive are life changing
“These patients often have spinal cord injuries, cervical spinal cord injuries, they’re quadriplegic, so they’re paralyzed from the neck down.” said Dr. Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong, orthopedic surgeon at Sacré-Cœur hospital.
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