A Bennington ambulance driver has died after crashing his rescue vehicle into a parked truck and then a tree.
A 60-year-old patient in the back of the ambulance was seriously injured in the crash Monday afternoon.
The Bennington Police Department says 48-year-old Dale Long was transporting a patient to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center when the ambulance veered off West Road and hit a parked pickup truck. Police say the ambulance spun and struck a large pine tree.
Long was pronounced dead at the medical center. The unidentified patient was taken by helicopter to Albany Medical Center in New York.
Officials say they don’t yet know whether a severe thunderstorm in the area contributed to the crash.