Manila man dies after vehicle flips

A Manila man was killed Friday morning after the vehicle he was driving overturned, authorities said.

Arturo Gonzales Garcia, 20, was driving a 2008 Nissan east on West County Road 314, also known as East Fleeman Street, in Manila when the vehicle ran off the road and overturned, according to an Arkansas State Police report. It happened about 3 a.m.

Garcia was pronounced dead at the scene by Mississippi County Deputy Coroner James Skinner, the report states.

There was no immediate word on what caused him to run off the road. The weather was clear and the road dry at the time of the accident, according to the report.

Garcia's was the 466th death on Arkansas roads in 2013, according to preliminary state police figures.

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