BROMONT, Que. -- A municipal police officer in Quebec was on his way to return identification papers to the driver of a car he had stopped when he was rammed by a truck and killed Thursday.
Quebec provincial police say 37-year-old officer Vincent Roy of the Bromont police department died at the scene.
"He was giving back the driver's licence, registration and insurance papers," said Quebec provincial police spokesman Louis-Philippe Ruel.
"The truck left the road and went onto the shoulder and actually hit the patrol car first and afterwards hit the officer."
Investigators don't believe alcohol or speed were factors in the incident.
The collision happened on a stretch of highway that runs through the small community about 100 kilometres east of Montreal.
The officer was doing routine road safety checks, Ruel said.
Roy, who leaves a wife and two children aged 8 and 10, had only recently joined the police force in his hometown of Bromont after serving with the RCMP in Alberta.
