A 17-year-old high school student from North Carolina has died after he crashed his car into a tree, according to PEOPLE. Gary Landyn Jacobs was traveling to work for his family’s logging business around 4 AM on August 14 when the accident occurred.

High School Student Fatally Crashes Into Tree On His Way To Work

Jacobs crashed his car into a tree on Canal Cove Road in Lake Waccamaw, per WECT. The boy’s uncle, Josh Simmons, told the outlet that Jacobs loved working for his family.

“What he was going to do that morning… he wanted to be in the logging woods, he was going to work,” said Simmons. “Without a shadow of a doubt, anybody who knows Landyn knew he was going to be running a crew in the logging woods with his brother and daddy.”

First responders administered medical treatment at t

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