Fatal Head-On Crash: 56-Year-Old CT Man ID'd As Victim

A local resident was killed in a head-on crash on a Connecticut roadway.

Route 6 near Woodbury Place in Woodbury (marked in red).
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07/30/2023 9:40 a.m.

It happened around 10 a.m. Saturday, July 29 in Litchfield County on Route 6 in Woodbury.

The victim, Robert C. Gardner, age 56, a resident of Woodbury, was operating a 2006 Subaru Baja Sport when a 2004 Dodge Dakota crossed over the double yellow line on Route 6 near Woodbury Place and crashed into it, Connecticut State Police said.

A passenger in the Subaru, a 65-year-old Woodbury woman, was seriously injured and is at Waterbury Hospital.

The driver of the Dodge, a 24-year-old resident of Ansonia in New Haven County, received minor injuries and was sent to Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury.

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