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West Yellowstone, Mont. • A Park City man is dead following a one-vehicle rollover accident near West Yellowstone, Montana.
The Billings Gazette reported that authorities have identified the victim as 20-year-old Joseph J. Morelli. He was a student at Montana State University in Bozeman.
Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Brandon Velasquez said Morelli was driving with a 20-year-old passenger in a Subaru on U.S. Highway 287 when the vehicle crashed at about 2 a.m. Saturday. The Subaru went off the road and rolled several times.
Morelli wasn't wearing a seatbelt. The passenger was wearing a seatbelt and escaped with minor injuries.