JO DAVIESS COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - One person has died after a crash in Jo Daviess County.

At approximately 2:09 p.m. Tuesday, authorities received a report of a single-vehicle crash on W Longhollow Road, east of Linden Trail in Galena, Illinois.

Police say the driver of an SUV and their front-seat passenger both believed the vehicle was in park when they began to exit the vehicle.

The vehicle began to roll down a steep hill. The driver tried to get back in the driver’s seat to stop it but was thrown from the vehicle.

The vehicle hit several trees before it came to rest in a ravine. The passenger was unable to exit the vehicle.

77-year-old William Klaersch, identified as the passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening-injurie

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