A Monday morning crash claimed the life of a Columbus man. The Bartholomew County Coroner’s Office says it was called to the scene of the one-vehicle crash on State Road 46 near Tipton Lakes Blvd, just west of Columbus at approximately 8:15 a.m. Coroner Clayton Nolting responded and pronounced 54-year-old Brian L. Stevens dead at the scene.

Nolting says that Stevens was the sole occupant of a pickup truck that crashed into a tree on the north side of the highway. He notes that Stevens had trauma to the chest, but an official cause of death is pending toxicology results.

The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the crash.