Teens suffer minor injuries following car accident at high school on Quebec's Magdalen Islands

About 400 students attend the secondary school on the Magdalen Islands. A car came into contact with about a dozen teens on Monday. (Jean-François Deschênes/Radio-Canada - image credit)
About 400 students attend the secondary school on the Magdalen Islands. A car came into contact with about a dozen teens on Monday. (Jean-François Deschênes/Radio-Canada - image credit)

Some teenagers are being treated for minor injuries after a car accident on the site of the Magdalen Islands high school, Polyvalente des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, on Monday.

Quebec provincial police spokesperson Frédéric Deshaies says they received a call about the incident at 12:30 p.m.

According to preliminary information, the driver of a vehicle hit a pedestrian, who suffered minor injuries.

"An altercation is said to have followed between some of the vehicle's occupants and the pedestrian," said Deshaies.

While backing up the car to leave the scene, the driver came into contact with about 12 teenagers.

Some of them needed to be transferred to the hospital for treatment of very minor injuries, said Deshaies.

He says the driver of the vehicle drove straight to the police station after the accident.

An investigation is currently underway.