One man killed after his SUV leaves roadway and crashes down 50 foot embankment in Marin County.

A driver was found dead by search and rescue crews Sunday morning after his vehicle veered off the roadway and down a steep wooded embankment in Mill Valley, according to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office.

At about 10:30 a.m. the Marin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team was called upon by Mill Valley police and fire crews to assist in locating the driver of a black Jeep Cherokee that had traveled about 50 feet down an embankment in the 100 block of Greenwood Way, a Marin Co. spokesman said.

The rescue team searched the heavily wooded hillside and found a man deceased further down the embankment, according to police.

The Marin County Coroner’s Office and the Mill Valley Police Department are investigating the cause of the incident.