Josh McConnell says he's lucky to be alive after crashing into a car on his scooter.

He told CBC News that the driver was going the wrong way down a one-way street, possibly due to a lack of proper signage from a nearby construction site that he says is creating traffic confusion in the area.

"It's possible that I lose part of my nose because some of the skin would seem it's not receiving sufficient blood flow because of the lacerations," McConnell said.

McConnell was headed down Clark Street on his scooter Tuesday around noon when a car came out of nowhere going east on Guilbault Street.

'Am I gonna die?'

"Then, the next thing I knew, I was on the ground and I was bleeding profusely out of my face," he recalled. "It's like pouring out of my body so I was just like, 'Am I gonna die?'"

Josh McConnell believes better signage on the construction detour could have prevented his accident. (CBC) McConnell thinks the car that hit him turned down Guilbault Street — which was blocked off Tuesday afternoon — and, realizing they couldn't get out, doubled back against the traffic.

At the intersection, there was no signage warning that vehicles heading down Clark — like McConnell's scooter — didn't have a stop.

McConnell says there should have been a 'road closed' sign at the top of Guilbault Street to warn drivers before they hit the block later on.

The road is being affected by major construction on St-Urbain Street where Hydro-Québec has dug up the road to lay a high-capacity cable.

The Plateau-Mont-Royal borough told CBC News Friday that Hydro-Québec was in charge of the construction project.

In turn, a Hydro-Québec spokesperson said that this section of road was not supposed to be closed on Tuesday.

The statement went on to explain that proper signage was put up at that intersection later in the week for a planned closure, but that the agency didn't know about McConnell's accident until contacted by CBC News.

The spokesperson said that if the street was blocked at one end, it was the result of a "momentary closure" by workers, not a planned one.

CBC News hasn't been able to verify independently that the street was closed at one end at the time of the accident, but a video shot by McConnell's friend a few hours later shows an excavator blocking St-Urbain Street.