A Wetumpka man died in a Wednesday crash in Elmore County, state police say.

Matthew C. Palmgren, 54, was fatally injured when the 2015 Ford F-250 pickup that he was driving left the roadway and overturned, said Capt. Jeremy Burkett, spokesman foe the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The single-vehicle crash happened about 5:48 p.m. Sept. 24, Burkett said.

Palmgren was not using a seat belt at the time of the crash, was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The crash happened on Alabama 111 near the 11 mile marker, about nine miles south of Wetumpka, in Elmore County.

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