EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LA. (THECOUNT) — Marquita Jackson has been identified as the victim in a fatal vehicle crash Thursday in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Jackson, 38, was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Zachary early Thursday morning.

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According to reports, Jackson was operating a vehicle on Tucker Road in Zachary, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle exited the roadway. The vehicle then entered a culvert and rolled over around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.

Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries.

A passenger in the vehicle was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: East Baton Rouge Parish is the most populous parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 440,171. The parish seat is Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s state capital. East Baton Rouge Parish is located inside of the Baton Rouge, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.