Alaska State Troopers responding to the report of a dangerous driver on Knik Goose Bay Road found the vehicle crashed and the driver dead, they said.
In an online dispatch, troopers wrote that they received a report of a driver in a Ford Ranger speeding, passing in no-passing zones and driving into oncoming traffic near the 10.5-mile mark of Knik Goose Bay Road outside Wasilla shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday.
Troopers found the truck about a mile and half farther down the road, near Mile 12. It had left the road and rolled several times, they said.
The driver, the truck's only occupant, 57-year-old Carl F. Dearman, of Wasilla, was killed in the crash, troopers said. Dearman was wearing a seat belt, according to the dispatch.
His body was taken from the scene by the State Medical Examiner Office and an investigation into the crash remains open, troopers said.
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