MADISON (WINA) – An elderly Madison County man will be included in the holiday weekend traffic death count after a Thanksgiving morning crash. State Police say 89-year old Wilbert Tasker has succumbed to his injuries at UVa from a single-vehicle crash on Elly Road, about 2-tenths of a mile south of Medley Mountain Drive 2 miles east of the town of Madison.

Tasker was driving a 1993 GMC Sierra south on Elly Road when he ran off the right side of the road and collided with a tree. He was not wearing a seat belt and suffered life-threatening injuries from which he has died.

The crash is still under investigation.