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On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at approximately 7:15 a.m., members of the Dartmouth Police Department, along with other emergency personnel, responded to the area of #29 Prospect Street to investigate a single vehicle crash.
Upon arrival, officers located a 2008 Toyota Tundra in the woods with heavy front end damage.
The operator, identified as Antonio VASSAL, 61, of Dartmouth was also located at the scene and pronounced dead.
The crash remains under investigation by Dartmouth Police and Massachusetts State Police detectives, and the Dartmouth Police Department Crash Reconstruction Unit.
VASSAL’s cause of death is still under investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Massachusetts.
