(KAIR)--An early Wednesday afternoon one-vehicle Leavenworth County crash claimed the life of a New Jersey man.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reports 24-year-old Damian Osborne was westbound on Interstate-70, just west of the Tonganoxie exit, when his car left the roadway for an unknown reason and struck a highway sign pillar.

Osborne, of West Orange, New Jersey, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Patrol says he was not wearing a seat belt when the wreck occurred shortly after 12:30 Wednesday afternoon.