(KNZA)--The victim of a fatal Saturday evening Brown County crash has been identified.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says killed in the crash on Prairie Road about 4 miles east of Hiawatha was 24-year-old Oliverio Cucul Pop, of Houston, Texas.

The Patrol says Cucul Pop was driving a Chevy Tahoe southbound when the vehicle ran off the road near 240th Road for an unknown reason and went into a ditch.  The vehicle jumped a creek, struck an embankment and a wooden post, before rolling on it's top and coming to rest in a field.

Cucul Pop was pronounced dead at the scene.

A passenger, 53-year-old Davis Junction, Illinois resident Esteban Xol, was transported to Hiawatha's Amberwell Hospital with suspected serious injuries.

The Patrol says neither occupant was buckled up when the wreck occurred shortly before 7:00 Saturday evening.

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(KNZA)--A fatal Saturday evening single-vehicle Brown County wreck remains under investigation.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says the wreck occurred shortly before 7:00 on Prairie Road about 4 miles east of Hiawatha.

According to the KHP report, the vehicle was southbound on Prairie Road near 240th Road when, for an unknown reason, it ran off the road into the west ditch.  The vehicle continued southbound, jumping a creek and striking an embankment, continuing southbound into the ditch. The vehicle then struck a wooden post, rolling on it's top and coming to rest in a field.  

No additional details--including the name of the victim or whether anyone else was in the vehicle---has been released as of Monday morning