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If Your Family Is Reeling From What Happened on Pautipaug Hill Road — Start Here If you are reading this, your family has lost something that cannot be replaced, and you are sitting with questions that arrived before you were ready for any of them. A child is gone. On a Saturday in Sprague, on private property along Pautipaug Hill Road, a dump truck took a life that was just beginning. Connecticut State Police have called it an “untimely death” — and that label, which sounds clinical, is actually the door opening into the investigation that will determine what happened and who is responsible. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial vehicle wrongful death cases, and we are writing this page for one person: the family member who is awake at 2 a.m. in New London County, searching for answers about what happens now. You need to know three things before anything else. First, the “untimely death” designation is an investigative classification, not a conclusion — it means the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has jurisdiction and will independently determine the cause and manner of death, separate from the police investigation. Second, the…