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The driver of an SUV that crashed into a utility pole earlier this month causing a fire at a midtown apartment complex has died, police say.

David Konsynski, 71, died from his injuries on Oct. 23, Tucson police said Thursday in a news release.

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Andrea Christine Wasson, 35, a passenger in a maroon Chevrolet Equinox about 5:30 a.m. Oct. 17, was traveling south in the 1400 block of North Alvernon Way when it veered off the road and struck a wooden utility pole, police say.

The crash caused power lines to arc, igniting a fire on the roof of the complex.

The fire damaged four apartments, but no one was injured in the blaze.

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