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 traveled southbound on state Highway 123 when for unknown reasons it went off the left side of the road, 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. Tennessee Highway Patrol reported in a news release that the accident possibly happened early Sunday morning. The driver sustained life threatening injuries at the time of impact.