A man died after being ejected from the vehicle he was driving when the car left the highway and struck a tree Friday morning in Baldwin County, authorities said.

Derrel D. Williams, 34, of Atmore, was pronounced dead at the scene of the single-vehicle wreck on Highway 31 near the 34-mile marker, about seven miles south of Atmore, in Baldwin County, said Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Senior Trooper Kendra R. McKinney.

Williams was driving a 2010 Mercury Milan around 6:31 a.m. Friday when the vehicle left the road and hit a tree.

Further information was unavailable as state troopers continued to investigate the wreck.