A 61-year-old New York man was killed Thursday after crashing into a state Department of Transportation work truck on Route 8 south in Seymour.
Daniel R. Cormier was traveling on the highway in a Isuzu box truck near exit 20 when he veered to the right and “began to drive along the metal beam guardrail,” according to an accident summary from state police. He struck a DOT truck that was parked partially in the right lane and right shoulder.
The crash happened at 12:10 p.m.
Police said they do not know, at this point, what caused Cormier to veer toward the guardrail and truck.
The DOT truck was equipped with a sign warning motorists the right lane was closed ahead of the truck. The man in the DOT truck was not injured.
Cormier was from Glendale, N.Y. His truck was owned by Prime Automotive Parts Co. Inc. of Rochester, N.Y.
His death was the third on Route 8 in the lower Naugatuck Valley in less than 24 hours.
Two people were killed on Route 8 in Shelton at 1:11 a.m. Thursday.
According to an accident summary from state police Troop I, Fernando J. Moreno-Rivas, 30, of Stratford, was heading south on Route 8 near exit 13 when his Chevy Tahoe was hit by a Chrysler Town & Country heading in the wrong direction on the highway.
Moreno-Rivas was killed, as was Kelly M. Wootten, 29, of Seymour, the driver of the vehicle going the wrong way.
That crash is also under investigation.
Moreno was a 2004 graduate of Notre Dame in Fairfield — and a medic who served with the Army in Afghanistan, according to the school.
