A man was airlifted to a hospital after being seriously injured in a two-car crash in Somers on Sunday which left one other person injured.

The crash occurred on Route 190 East just before 2:15 p.m. as one driver tried to pass another, according to Connecticut State Police .

A preliminary investigation found that a 70-year-old Somers man was heading east in a 2016 Hyundai Elantra when he put on his blinker to turn left into his residence, state police said. A 27-year-old Windsor man, allegedly driving a 2008 Jeep Wrangler at a “high rate of speed” behind the Elantra, then tried passing the Hyundai on the left and the two vehicles collided, according to state police.

The Wrangler driver was flown via Life Star to the Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts with injuries believed to be

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