A Jennings County man was killed in a one-vehicle crash Friday morning in Bartholomew County. The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department says that a passerby noticed the crashed vehicle shortly after 7 a.m. on County Road 330 West near County Road 450 North. Investigators believe the vehicle left the road, struck and embankment and rolled.

Clayton Nolting, Bartholomew County Coroner, identified the driver as 53-year-old Jeffrey L. Hanson, of North Vernon. Authorities say that Hanson was the only person in the vehicle and was not wearing his seat-belt. Nolting says that Hanson died from blunt-force trauma to the chest.

The cause of the accident remains under investigation.