BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A 35-year-old man found dead last month after fleeing a Bennington motor vehicle crash died of exposure, according to the death certificate filed by the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner.
The death certificate for Hans Heck, which was released Wednesday, says he died on Jan. 8 from “hypothermia due to low environmental temperatures.”
The Bennington Banner reports t he document said he died within minutes of exposure and his death was an accident. Temperatures that night stayed below freezing.
Bennington Police Department responded to a rollover crash of Heck’s pickup truck on Vermont Route 279 at around 6:30 p.m. Jan. 8 and found he’d fled the scene.
Local police were unable to find him that night and resumed the search on Jan. 10 after Heck’s family and reported he was still missing His body was found Jan. 11, about 200 yards off Route 279.
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