Driver Ejected, Trapped Under Car After Rollover Crash: Meriden Police

MERIDEN, CT — A driver was seriously injured after he was ejected from a car and became trapped under it in a rollover crash early Friday morning in Meriden, according to police.

The driver, a 35-year-old Meriden man, was driving a 2013 Lexus GS350 south on Old Colony Road at a high rate of speed around 1 a.m. on July 19, according to Sgt. Stanley Zajac.

Zajac said the driver lost control of the Lexus and crossed the double yellow line. He left the roadway and traveled across the front yards of area homes, according to Zajac.

The driver hit a fire hydrant that was 300 feet on the opposite side of the road, Zajac said.

The vehicle rolled over several times and ejected the driver from the vehicle, according to Zajac.

The driver landed at the bottom of a hill, and the Lexus rolled on top of his “lower extremities trapping him under the car,” Zajac wrote in a news release.

Zajac said the car came to a stop behind a 6-foot construction fence that made it difficult for the first-arriving units to get to the driver.

Firefighters extricated the driver and he was taken to Hartford Hospital, where he was listed in serious but stable condition, according to Zajac.

Anyone with information, or video footage of the crash, is asked to contact the Meriden Police Department at 203-630-6201. Sgt. Vasco Lacerda is the investigator on the crash.