One person is in critical condition after a two-car crash involving a stolen truck in Matthews early Wednesday morning.
According to Police, the 57-year-old driver was injured after his small white Mazda truck flipped after hitting a F-250 truck on Idlewild Road near Matthews Pineville Road on Wednesday morning around 4:30 a.m.
Emergency crews on the scene had to extricate the man from the truck after being trapped from the crash.
The driver of the second truck had stolen the F-250. After the crash, he jumped from the vehicle and ran from the scene.
The truck was one of several that had been broken into at a Charlotte home. Other stolen property was found in the truck as well.
Police and emergency crews were able to reopen Idlewild Road after clearing the scene around 7:30 a.m.
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