The Caddo Sheriff's Office responded to a one-vehicle traffic accident this morning that left one man dead and another injured.

Bennie Ray Singletary, 56, of Florien, was traveling northbound on Keithville-Keatchie Road around 6:30 a.m. when his vehicle entered a curve, left the roadway, and hit a tree. He was driving a 2001 Dodge pickup.

Singletary was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, 29-year-old Cedric Rogers of Hemphill, Texas, was taken to LSU Health Sciences Center by Life Air for treatment of injuries received in the accident.

The accident remains under investigation by the Caddo Sheriff's Traffic Safety Unit.