Robert Brown, a 65-year-old Maine resident, had vanished on Thursday after driving his wife 15 miles to her workplace in Rochester, New Hampshire. After a two-day search involving the pinging of his dead cellphone, Brown was discovered trapped in his Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup truck at the bottom of an embankment behind a sand pit in nearby Dover, according to AP News.
This isolated location is not typically accessed by the public, as reported by Spectrum Local News. Dover Fire Department Lt. Patrick Simmons told WMUR-TV that the area is generally utilized only by city workers and others for dumping sand and dirt. The circumstances surrounding how Brown's vehicle had ended up there remain unclear, and the case continues to be investigated.
After Brown's wife called the police early Friday to report his disappearance, she discovered his cellphone had run out of battery. It wasn't until two hunters, strolling through the woods near River and Washington streets the following day, happened upon his truck that the authorities were alerted to his location through the hunters' timely intervention, per NBC Boston.
Rescue crews discovered tracks leading down a hill to the trapped man's vehicle. They proceeded to extract Brown from his truck and transport him to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. His current condition, as shared by the authorities, indicates that he is expected to recover from this unexpected ordeal.
