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SEYMOUR, CT – The 79-year-old driver of a 1930 Ford Model A has died following a head-on collision with a Ford F-350 pickup in Seymour on Friday night.
The driver, Richard Dimauro, was unresponsive at the scene, according to a press release from the Seymour Police Department. Lifesaving measures were performed and Dimauro was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Police said Dimauro’s last known address was in Oxford.
The accident occurred near the intersection of Great Hill Road and Southwest Road. Police were summoned at 8:55 p.m.
The driver of the F-350, the model year of which was not provided, was identified as a 41-year-old male whose last known address was Seymour. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash and was taken to Bridgeport Hospital for treatment.
The cause of crash is under investigation. Great Hill Road was closed for approximately 5½ hours.
Driving an old car – such as the 96-year-old Model A – can be risky for classic car owners.
Bill Jarvis of Seymour, who owns a 1926 Ford Model T, lives about a mile from where the crash happened. Reacting Saturday to the fatal accident, he noted that a vintage car “has no shot against a modern car. It’s so much out-sized and out-weighed. It’s a shame.”
(Photo at top from Seymour Police Department’s Facebook page.)
