A single-vehicle crash that occurred at approximately 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, has claimed the life of a Wetumpka man. James T. Tucker, 31, was critically injured when the 1994 GMC Sierra pickup he was driving left the roadway, struck a ditch and overturned. Tucker was not using a seat belt at the time of the crash and was transported to Elmore Community Hospital in Wetumpka, where he succumbed to injuries and was pronounced deceased. A passenger in the GMC, Dylan T. Sullivan, 29, of Wetumpka, was injured and transported Jackson Hospital in Montgomery.
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