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PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A Gloucester firefighter tends to a man inside pickup after it crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester on Monday afternoon. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use hydraulic tools to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A Gloucester firefighter tends to a man inside a pickup truck that crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester on Monday. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use a hydraulic tool to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. Gloucester firefighters use a stretcher to take a man, who was in a pickup truck that crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester, to a waiting ambulance. They had to use a hydraulic tool to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A MedFlight helicopters leaves the O'Mailey Innovation Middle School parking lot Monday while a Gloucester firefighter looks on after the person's truck crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use hydraulic tools to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A Gloucester Police officer and a couple of bystanders look at an accident where a truck crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester on Monday. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use a hydraulic tool to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. Boston MedFlight crews use a stretcher to transport a man, whose truck crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester, to an awaiting helicopter. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use a hydraulic tool, commonly called the the Jaws of Life, to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A Gloucester firefighter tends to a man inside pickup after it crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester on Monday afternoon. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use hydraulic tools to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A Gloucester firefighter tends to a man inside a pickup truck that crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester on Monday. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use a hydraulic tool to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. Gloucester firefighters use a stretcher to take a man, who was in a pickup truck that crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester, to a waiting ambulance. They had to use a hydraulic tool to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A MedFlight helicopters leaves the O'Mailey Innovation Middle School parking lot Monday while a Gloucester firefighter looks on after the person's truck crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use hydraulic tools to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. A Gloucester Police officer and a couple of bystanders look at an accident where a truck crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester on Monday. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use a hydraulic tool to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. Boston MedFlight crews use a stretcher to transport a man, whose truck crashed through a fence and smashed into a tree on Reynard Street in Gloucester, to an awaiting helicopter. The Gloucester Fire Department had to use a hydraulic tool, commonly called the the Jaws of Life, to remove him from the truck. 8/31/20

A medical event may have lead to a 33-year-old man being cut from a crashed pickup truck Monday and airlifted to a Boston Hospital.

The man taken by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital after the truck he was driving hit a utility pole, went through a fence and hit a tree.

According to the official police report, the driver turned on to Reynard Street from Cherry Street when he appeared to have suffered a medical event causing the pickup truck to cross over the center line. 

The pickup went past the curb and onto the sidewalk — where the left front wheel came off — and struck a utility pole. The impact caused the pole to detach from its base, bringing live wires down across the roadway. 

The vehicle then proceeded through a wooden fence before coming to a stop when it struck a large tree. 

A call reporting the crash came into the Fire Department around 3:15 p.m. 

The driver was trapped in the truck, fire Deputy Chief Steve Aiello explained, and it took firefighters 15 to 20 minutes with the Jaws of Life — a heavy-duty hydraulic rescue tool — to retrieve him from the vehicle. 

Conscious and alert at the crash scene, the driver was med-flighted to Massachusetts General due to his injuries. 

It is unknown if the driver remains in the hospital.

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