A person is dead after getting into a motor vehicle crash in Watertown Tuesday afternoon, police said.
Authorities were called to the area of Litchfield Road and Plungis Road at about 11 a.m. for a reported one-car crash.
Responding officers found a car that had crashed into a tree. The driver, later identified as 56-year-old Christopher Taylor, of Waterbury, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
The Naugatuck Valley Regional Accident Investigation Team is investigating.
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