Phoenix, AZ : A rollover crash in Washington on Wednesday, July 26, 2017

A man is dead after being ejected from a pickup truck while two passengers suffered minor injuries during a rollover crash in Washington City Wednesday.

Shortly before 7 a.m. officers and emergency responders were dispatched to a single-vehicle rollover involving a 2009 Toyota pickup truck carrying three occupants. The crash occurred at the on-ramp from Long Valley to eastbound state Route 7.

The driver, 32-year-old Tyler Charles of Fredonia Arizona, was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at the scene, UHP Trooper Grant Hintze said.

The truck was heading east on the on-ramp from Long Valley to SR-7 near mile marker 15 when the the driver lost control and the truck went off the left-hand shoulder of the roadway. The man then over-corrected to the right which sent the truck careening off of the right-hand shoulder and overturning, Hintze said. The truck came to rest upside-down with the wheels in the air.

The unrestrained driver was likely ejected through the driver’s side window during the rollover, the trooper said, as both the driver’s and passenger’s side windows were shattered while the windshield remained intact.

Hintze said the two women were very fortunate as they also unrestrained and thrown around the vehicle during the rollover but remained inside of the truck during the crash. Both sustained minor lacerations and bruising and were treated by EMT’s at the scene, but declined to be transported to the hospital and told officers they were being picked up by family members.

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Driver killed, 2 injured in rollover crash on SR-7