A man was taken to the hospital on Thursday night after being extricated from a pickup truck that became wedged underneath a tractor-trailer during a “full speed” crash on Interstate 95 in Norwalk.

Crews responded to the area between Exits 16 and 17 shortly after 11:10 p.m. on a report of the crash and found that the driver of the pickup had “apparently” rear-ended the tractor-trailer “at full speed,” according to Dep. Chief Adam Markowitz of the Norwalk Fire Department .

Crews had to lift the trailer and remove the door from the pickup truck to free the driver, Markowitz said. No one else was in the vehicle. The extrication took about 25 minutes, according to Markowitz.

It took crews about 25 minutes to free the driver of a pickup truck who became pinned in his vehicle following a co

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