COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A North Carolina man died after a construction vehicle backed over the edge of a roadway and rolled down a mountain in Cocke County, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said.

On Saturday morning, Dennis Jeffrey Sewell, 58, was driving an articulated dump truck while working on improvements to Rocky Top Road, according to THP's preliminary report.

The truck backed over the edge of the roadway and began to overturn, rolling down the mountain and coming to rest halfway down, THP said. Sewell was killed, according to the report.

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