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A 17-year-old passenger died Thursday night after the pickup truck he was riding in crashed into a tree in the JW Corbett Wildlife Management area in Palm Beach County.

The fatal crash occurred at 10:52 p.m. on November 27 on Stumpers Grade Road north of 94th Street North Canal, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Traffic Division.

The Lake Worth teen was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:19 p.m. by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue personnel.

The driver, 19-year-old James Robert Rankin Jr. of Lake Worth, was traveling eastbound in a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado when he began negotiating a curve on Stumpers Grade Road. After completing the

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