WALLINGFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police are seeking any witnesses to an early-morning crash that left a truck driver dead.
State police say for reasons unknown a tractor-trailer veered off Interstate 91 in Wallingford Friday, rolled down a grassy embankment and slammed into a tree. The crash occurred shortly before 5 a.m. in the northbound lanes of the highway.
The driver of the rig, identified as 41-year-old Ashley Bennett of Uniondale, New York, was taken to Yale Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
State police are continuing to investigate.