Driver Found Dead After Propane Truck Goes Off Hobart Road

Cause Possibly Medical, Troopers Say

When troopers arrived to investigate a propane-crash in Hobart, they found the driver dead in the cab.

HOBART – After a propane truck went off the road here yesterday afternoon, troopers responded to find the driver dead in in the cab.

Investigators concluded that – for an unknown reason, possibly medically related – Edward M. Walley Jr., 62, of Delhi, drove off the roadway, into a ditch and struck a utility pole before rolling to its passenger side. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.

The accident happened at 1:18 p.m. at Town Brook Road at Red Rock Road in the Town of Stamford.

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