A 16-year-old Columbia resident died Sunday evening in a crash on Vemers Ford Road near Rangeline Road, the Boone County Sheriff's Department reported.

Gabryel W. Hopper was driving west on the road southeast of Columbia in a 1998 Dodge Dakota at about 5:30 p.m. when the car ran off the left side of the road, struck a utility pole and overturned, the Sheriff's Department said in a news release.

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