Man Dies in Wreck with VT Apparatus

A driver was killed and a firefighter suffered non life-threatening injuries Sunday when a pickup collided with a Cornwall fire apparatus.
Source Firehouse.com News
Sept. 10, 2018
WCAX
A Cornwall, VT, fire apparatus can be seen in a wooded area beside a roadway after a wreck that left a pickup driver dead and a firefighter injured on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018.
A Cornwall, VT, fire apparatus can be seen in a wooded area beside a roadway after a wreck that left a pickup driver dead and a firefighter injured on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018.

A driver was killed and a firefighter injured Sunday afternoon when a pickup collided with a Cornwall fire apparatus.

WCAX reports that the driver of the pickup, who was identified as 44-year-old Deane Rubright, was traveling on Route 125 at a high rate of speed and not wearing a seat belt when he crossed the center line into the path of the oncoming apparatus.

The driver of the apparatus, 45-year-old firefighter Thomas Frankovic, was taken to a hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

The crash is under investigation.

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