A 34-year-old New Haven man was killed in a crash on Interstate 91 in North Haven early Sunday morning and Connecticut State Police are asking for help as they investigate.
Police and firefighters responded to a three-vehicle accident on I-91 north near exit 11 around 2:40 a.m. Sunday and smoke was billowing from one of the vehicles.
When they arrived one car was on fire. Police said the driver of the Ford Fiesta that caught fire was Benjamin Franklin Morant Jr., 34, of New Haven, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Troopers are looking for anybody with information, no matter how small that tidbit of information is or you feel that it's not important, it could be to them," Trooper Kelly Grant said. "They are trying to piece together this puzzle to determine what happened in this crash."
Morant graduated from Platt Technical High School in 2000 and a vigil will be held at the school at 7 p.m. on Monday.
A 2004 Ford pickup and a 2004 Jeep Liberty were also involved in the crash and six other people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The highway was closed from about 2:40 a.m. to 7 a.m. while crews investigated. At this time it's not clear what caused the crash, police said.
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"They are looking at all factors. They are looking at lighting. They are looking at temperature. They are looking at road conditions. They take everything into consideration when they do these investigations," Grant said.
