1:23 PM UPDATE:
According to Port Aransas Police Deparment, The driver of the vehicle who died in a single-vehicle crash Saturday morning has been identified as 17-year-old Byron Davis, a student at Port Aransas High School.
Officers found that a Chevrolet pickup truck had left the road and collided with a building.
Davis was pronounced dead at the scene.
This marks the third death of a Port Aransas local in just over a month.
Heather Miller, 61, was killed on a golf cart in Port Aransas May 10.
Well-known paramedic Albert "Bert" Howie was killed in an Ingleside shooting on Memorial Day.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A person died in a single-vehicle crash Saturday morning, according to Port Aransas South Jetty.
The accident happened around 6:30 a.m. Saturday on Cotter Ave.
The truck was moving along Cotter Ave. when it appeared to have run off the road, striking a fence and then another structure.
There is no more information at this time. The accident is still under investigation.
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