Arrest made in deadly 2024 tractortrailer crash in Connecticut
Mar 18, 2025
ASHFORD, CT. (WWLP) - An arrest has been made in the tractor-trailer crash that killed a man from Enfield last year.
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The crash happened last February on I-84 at the Ashford-Union line. NBC Connecticut states that 45-year-old Ca
rlos Vega was traveling eastbound in the center lane on I-84 around 2 a.m., and veered right, hitting another truck in the right lane.
The two trucks dove off the road, into a guardrail, and plummeted into Morey Pond. Vega's truck came to a stop upside down in the water.
Police arrested one of the tractor-trailer drivers, 33-year-old James Deruisseaux on homicide charges and for making false statements and failing to drive in the proper lane.
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