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Polk County man dies in car crash

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A Polk County man died in a car crash Sunday morning on State Highway 123, according to a Tennessee Highway Patrol news release.

Dennis K. Wilcox, 57 of Turtletown, died after his 1978 CJ7 struck two large trees off the highway.

The vehicle was traveling south when for unknown reasons it went off the left side of the road and down a grass embankment and struck two large trees.

The exact time of the accident is unknown because the vehicle was discovered off the embankment. The THP said the crash could have happened early Sunday morning.