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A 29-year-old man fatally crashed in the early hours Friday on I-195 west in Seekonk, authorities said.
Seekonk police and EMS, as well as State Police, responded to a 911 call reporting a single-vehicle crash on the highway at 1:21 a.m., according to a release from the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office.
Police said the driver, Joseph Gagliardi of Seekonk, struck several trees and crashed in a wooded median of the highway “at a high rate of speed.”
First responders located Gagliardi, the sole occupant of the vehicle, “in the grass median with significant injuries. ” EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation.
Heather Alterisio, a senior content producer, joined Boston.com in 2022 after working for more than five years as a general assignment reporter at newspapers in Massachusetts.
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