LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A man died Wednesday when his vehicle went off Bottle Rock Road and hit a tree.

The crash occurred at approximately 1:44 p.m. Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office reported.

The CHP did not release the name of the crash victim in its Wednesday night report pending the identification of next of kin.

CHP officers responded to a report of a solo vehicle crash on Bottle Rock Road, north of Spring Hill Road, involving a 2006 white Toyota Scion.

A preliminary investigation indicated the adult male driver was driving the Toyota northbound at a high rate-of-speed, the CHP said.

For reasons pending further investigation, the CHP said the driver lost control of the Toyota.

The Toyota traveled out of control in a northeasterly direction and traveled off of the east roadway edge, the CHP said.

The CHP said the Toyota traveled down a descending embankment, overturned, and struck a tree east of the roadway.

The driver and sole occupant of the Toyota was found ejected from the vehicle.

As a result of the crash, the driver sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene by Cal Fire, the CHP said.

The driver was not wearing his safety belt during the crash and neither alcohol nor drug use is suspected to be a factor in this wreck, according to the CHP report.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Five Star Towing were summoned to the scene and assisted CHP.

Bottle Rock Road, at this location, was reduced to one-way traffic control, the CHP said.

The crash is being investigated by CHP Officer K. Brown.