One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash that shut down a portion of Route 3 in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on Monday morning.
Duxbury fire said in a social media post around 5:40 a.m. that they were working an accident on Route 3 south in the area of the Franklin Street overpass.
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All lanes reopened shortly before 9 a.m., according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Later, Duxbury fire officials said in a release that they responded to a 911 call reporting a crash on Route 3 south around 4:52 a.m. They arrived at the scene to find a heavily damaged vehicle that had struck a guardrail.
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The driver was ejected from the vehicle and did not survive, fire officials said. No passengers or other vehicles were involved.
The driver has been identified as 53-year-old Abdel Naser Alyagbeh, a Pembroke resident, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney.
Massachusetts State Police are investigating the crash.