Crime & Safety
Police Identify Victim in Monday's Fatal Crash in Middlefield
Police say 27-year-old Daniel Escobar-Sanchez died after the truck he was driving slammed into a telephone pole along Route 147.
State police have identified a Willimantic man in Middlefield on Monday.
27-year-old Daniel Escobar-Sanchez lost control of a truck while headed east on the highway and slammed into a telephone pole. Escobar was pronounced dead shorly after the crash, police said.
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Two passengers, Jesus Lizman-Gonzalez, 21, and Santo Gonzalez-Chavez, 24, both of Willimantic, were transported to Hartford Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police say the three men were on their way to Durham for a construction job when the crash happened around 10:30 a.m.
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Police say wet roads may have been a factor in the crash.
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