On Wednesday evening, authorities with Alabama Law Enforcement Agency were called out to a fatal crash in Deatsville, Alabama, roughly 200 miles south of Chattanooga. According to first responders, a man was ejected out of a truck on Highway 111 shortly before 6:00pm when his truck left the road and flipped.

Law enforcement confirmed with Local 3 News that the victim in that deadly crash is 54-year-old Matthew Palmgren.

Local 3 News spoke with a woman who witnessed the crash. She wanted to remain anonymous.

"He was in the ditch between one house driveway and the other, parallel to the road... He hit the second driveway which was concrete. So, he went airborne into the air," said the witness.

The witness said she called 911 right away.

"Being former law enforcement... I was speaking in

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