A 38-year-old Mt. Vernon man has died in a single vehicle wreck in Jefferson County. Coroner Eddie Joe Marks says Brian Piper was pronounced dead at Crossroads Hospital in Mt. Vernon at 3:25 Sunday morning. He reports Piper appeared to be in the process of making a turn from Vermont Road onto Davis Road near McClelland School north east of Waltonville when his truck went out of control. Marks says the truck appears to have hit a culvert, veered off the other side of the road, hit the roadside ditch and overturned. Piper, who was not wearing a seatbelt, struck the windshield. Marks says Piper died from blunt force trauma to the head. The coroner thinks sleep deprivation may have been part of the reason for the wreck. Marks reports Piper apparently hadn't slept in 50 hours and had been out duck hunting. The wreck was first reported to police at 2:35 Sunday morning.
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