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Police investigate fatal accident in the Town of Alden

The accident happened on Walden Avenue between Wende and Zoeller roads around 3am.

ALDEN, N.Y. — The Erie County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal accident n the Town of Alden Thursday morning. 

The accident happened on Walden Avenue between Wende and Zoeller roads around 3am. 

Officials say a Sheriff's Corrections Officer assigned to patrol observed a box truck leave the roadway, striking a utility pole and then coming to rest on the bank of Ellicott Creek 

The driver of the truck was deceased.  Investigators believe a medical episode led to the accident. The name of the driver has not been released. 

That section of Walden Avenue reopened to traffic shortly after 10 AM.

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