A person is dead after crashing their car into a utility pole in the Town of Wheatfield Tuesday.

The Niagara County Sheriff's Office has identified the victim as Michael R. Marra, 17. 

North Tonawanda High School, where Marra was a student, said he was a student in the class of 2020 and that grief counselors will be avialable Wednesday, January 22, and Thursday, January 23, from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. to support students and staff. 

The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said Marra was driving west on Niagara Falls Boulevard, just past Ward Road, when the vehicle began to swerve. It left the road and hit a telephone pole and a tree.

He was taken to a nearby hospital wherehe died.