A 75-year-old Valier man was killed Dec. 14 in a single-vehicle accident in Franklin County.
Franklin County Coroner Marty Leffler said the name of the victim is not being released at this time. Leffler pronounced the victim dead a the scene at 10:35 a.m. on Monday.
Leffler said the victim was driving a passenger car that was traveling south on Jefferson Street in Valier, just north of Izaac Walton road, when it appears it left the road way went up an embankment, through an electric fence into a cow pasture where it struck struck a tree.
Leffler speculated that the driver of the vehicle possibly had some type of medical issue occur, causing him to leave the roadway and the vehicle come to a rest after impact with a tree. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
The Franklin County Sheriff Department is handling the crash reconstruction and investigation.
No other information is available at this time. The name of the victim will be released at noon on Tuesday.
This is the 18th motor vehicle fatality in Franklin County this year.
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