Montreal police are investigating a Surete du Quebec chase which ended with the death of a motorcyclist.
Early Monday morning, SQ officers set a speed trap on Highway 132 in Longueuil, which the biker rode through around 3:20 a.m.
According to Andre Leclerc of the Montreal Police department the rider was going more than 100 km/h when he blew through the trap.
"He refused to obey the order of stopping his motorcycle," said Leclerc, which is when SQ officers gave chase.
The rider got off the highway at Rolland-Therrien, then lost control in a curve on De Gentilly street and struck a tree.
The 33-year-old man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
People who knew the man gathered at the crash site on Monday to shed tears, and see the spot for themselves.
Detectives with Montreal's major-crimes unit came to the scene along with accident-reconstruction investigators.
No physical contact
They have already determined that there was no physical contact between the bike and the SQ cruiser during the chase.
"If an interception becomes too dangerous for anybody, for the policemen itself, or the driver, well that becomes a question mark about do we go on or not," said Leclerc.
Continuing a chase depends on the time of day, traffic flow, and the speeds involved by police and the fleeing driver.
Under Quebec law, an outside police force is called in any time a civilian is injured or killed during a police operation
Montreal's investigators hope to finish their report by the end of next week.
