FD: Driver killed in single-vehicle rollover in Belmont

BELMONT, Mass. — State Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash that left a truck driver dead early Thursday morning.

Belmont emergency responders were called to Common Street and Royal Road in Belmont just before 3 a.m. Thursday for a rollover crash.

Belmont: Common @ Dunbarton, TT rollover at the rotary, driver entrapped, avoid area @BelmontPD #Boston25 pic.twitter.com/CQ9ilmwqnF
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Fire officials say when they got there, they found the driver was trapped. After trying to rescue him, they discovered he was dead. The medical examiner was called to the scene before the man was taken out of the truck.

“We were trying to extricate him but then we discovered he was deceased so now we need to wait for the medical examiner,” said Captain Rick Nohl, the incident commander. “It took us a while to actually gain access to inside the cab, he was pinned in there pretty heavily.”

He has only been identified as a 45-year-old male.

Officials say he was the only person in the truck, which was fully loaded with produce.

Truck is from Chang & Sons Enterprises out of Deerfield. pic.twitter.com/SVcjuLKlod
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State Police are investigating.

BREAKING: The driver of this truck has died after it crashed on Common St in Belmont. Investigators are on scene now. Common St is shut down from School St to Concord Ave for a while. @boston25 pic.twitter.com/e3XPBg1Zxm
— Kelly Sullivan (@ksullivannews) March 4, 2021

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