A District 20 plow driver died after his truck slid off the road Tuesday morning in northeast Colorado Springs, authorities said.

Stephen Houston was driving a 2006 Ford F250 southbound on Gleaneagle Drive, south of Candlewood Court, when he hit an icy patch near a curve in the road, said Colorado State Patrol in a news release.

While approaching the curve, the district’s sand and plow truck slid to the left side of the road and tumbled off a steep embankment into a drainage culvert, the release stated. The right side of the truck hit the opposite embankment of the culvert and then stopped on its wheels.

Sgt. Scott Hophan said Houston, 27, crashed at 7:30 a.m. and that he was not plowing at the time of the crash, just driving between schools.

Houston was brought to Penrose Hospital with life-threatening injuries and died about 1 p.m., according to the release.