N.S. man, 28, dies after truck leaves road, lands in brook in Lunenburg County

A man is dead following a single-vehicle crash in Lunenburg County, N.S., on Thursday.

A 28-year-old man has died after his truck landed upside down in a brook in Lunenburg County.

The RCMP and emergency crews responded to the single-vehicle crash on Italy Cross Road in Crousetown, N.S., around 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

“Officers learned that a Ram 3500 had left the roadway and come to rest upside down and submerged in the Wallace Brook,” said the RCMP in a news release Friday.

The driver, a 28-year-old man from Middlewood, N.S., died at the scene. No one else was inside the vehicle.

Italy Cross Road was closed for several hours. It has since reopened.

Police say the investigation is ongoing.

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