By Associated Press - Monday, December 11, 2017

NORTHPORT, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say an Alabama man is dead after his vehicle crashed into a tree.

Alabama State Troopers said 31-year-old Joseph Alan Bowen of Fayette was killed in Tuscaloosa County.

Al.com reports the crash happened at 2:50 a.m. Sunday on a road a few miles north of Northport. Senior Trooper Reginal King said Bowen was a driving a 2008 Hummer that left the road and smashed into a tree. Bowen was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene.



Troopers are still investigating the cause of the crash.

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