HAMILTON COUNTY — A 17-year-old McLeansboro, High School student died Friday afternoon when the pickup truck he was driving collided with a farm tractor on the Dahlgren Blacktop less than a mile east of Illinois Rt. 142.

According to Hamilton County Coroner Steve Bowling, Dawson Parmley lost control of his 1975 Chevy pickup truck as he topped a hill and ran under a four-wheel drive farm tractor towing a grain auger.

Illinois State Police are investigating the case and have assigned an accident reconstruction officer to the case.