Griswold, CT – A 42-year-old man was fatally injured after the utility truck he was operating veered off I-395 Thursday morning.
At approximately 8:36 AM on Thursday, August 8th, 2024, crews were dispatched for a reported utility truck rollover with entrapment before Exit 24 (Rt 201) on I-395 Southbound.
Crews arrived to find a utility truck rolled down a 75′ embankment with the driver partially ejected and pinned under the vehicle. Crews immediately began to extricate the operator using pneumatic airbags. The operator was pronounced deceased on the scene before extrication was complete.
According to the Connecticut State Police, a 2019 Freightliner Utility Truck, registered to Buckley Cable Construction Co. and operated by a 42-year-old Ashby MA man, was traveling Southbound in the right lane of I-395 when it came upon a planned construction pattern closing the right lane.
The truck drove into the right shoulder where it struck a metal guardrail, and returned to the right lane, before veering right and driving over the guardrail. The truck then rolled onto its right side and down the embankment where it came to its final rest.
I-395 South was closed for most of the day as the accident was investigated by the Connecticut State Police Troop E, the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Squad, and the Traffic Services Unit Truck Squad.
Anyone with information or video of the collision is asked to contact Trooper Christopher Brett #691 at 860-848-6500×5.
Agencies that responded, or were dispatched, included the Griswold Volunteer Fire Department, Plainfield Fire Co. #1, American Ambulance Service, and the Connecticut State Police.
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