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Officials release name of man killed in crash near Central City
Officials have identified a 20-year-old Texas man in Friday's deadly crash on Highway 13, just south of Central City.
The Linn County Sheriff's Office says Joseph E. Coleman, 20, of Muenster, Texas, died after the SUV he was driving went off the northbound lanes of the highway.
Investigators say, at about 12:08 p.m., the 1999 Chevy Blazer went into a ditch, overturned and hit a tree. Coleman died at the scene.
Linn County sheriff's deputies walk out of a ditch where a sport utility vehicle crashed along Highway 13 about two miles south of Central City this afternoon, Friday, July 16, 2010. The male driver and lone occupant died at the scene. (Jeff Raasch/The Gazette)
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