A 61-year-old dri­ver died af­ter crash­ing his car in­to a util­i­ty pole in South Oropouche on Tues­day night.

The au­thor­i­ties iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Ken­rick Ram­sey, a labour­er from Maraj Trace, South Oropouche.

Po­lice said an anony­mous caller alert­ed of­fi­cers to the in­ci­dent around 6.10 pm. When of­fi­cers ar­rived near Ibis Cir­cu­lar Dri­ve, Aripero Vil­lage, Rousil­lac, they saw a mint-green Nis­san Blue­bird Syl­phy that had crashed in­to a con­crete light pole on the side of the road.

Ram­sey was pinned be­hind the steer­ing wheel. Fire sub-of­fi­cer Ba­boolal and his team from the Mon Re­pos Fire Sta­tion used the jaws of life to free him.

Due to his in­juries, the po­lice of­fi­cers at the scene were un­able to in­ter­view him to de­ter­mine what tran­spired.

An am­bu­lance took the 61-year-old to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he suc­cumbed to his in­juries around 11 pm.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed his ad­dress, a neigh­bour said no one was at home.

Of­fi­cers from the Oropouche Po­lice Sta­tion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the in­ci­dent.

— Sascha Wil­son