Police have charged a man in connection with a fatal crash in September in Ansonia.

Isac Saravia, 26, of Ansonia was arrested Wednesday of charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to Lt. Patrick Lynch of the Ansonia Police Department .

Lynch said the charges stem from a crash on Sept. 24 on Pershing Drive that left 27-year-old Adonis Lapuppet-Bligen dead.

Investigators believe Saravia was “following closely behind” Lapuppet-Bligen’s vehicle just before the crash when Lapuppet-Bligen struck a telephone pole, Lynch said. No one else was in the vehicle with Lapuppet-Bligen.

According to Lynch, police worked with the Fairfield Police Department’s Accident Reconstruction Unit and learned that both men were allegedly going about 80 mph just prior to the

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