POWNAL, VT : 2 taken to hospital after head-on collision in Pownal on Monday, 22nd March 2021

Two town residents were taken to the local hospital Monday morning after their vehicles collided head-on along Route 7 in Pownal. Police were still investigating the cause of the crash as of Monday afternoon.

The collision, which occurred at the intersection of Schoolhouse Road around 7:45 a.m., happened when a southbound 1998 Chevrolet pick-up truck crossed the double yellow center line and “drove head-on” into a 2012 Nissan Murano, according to the Bennington County Sheriff’s Department’s preliminary investigation.

The truck driver, Dylan Russell, 23, was taken to the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington for a medical check and a drug evaluation, the sheriff’s department said in a release. He was reportedly alone in the vehicle.

The other driver, Tony Fawcett, 37, had to be extricated from his SUV by the Pownal Center Fire Department using the Jaws of Life, a tool used to pry open parts of a vehicle to free those trapped inside. “The doors and roof were required to be cut off to safely remove Mr. Fawcett,” the release said.


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